{"id":39428,"date":"2018-11-05T07:16:28","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T15:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=39428"},"modified":"2018-11-05T07:20:05","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T15:20:05","slug":"twas-the-night-before-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/05\/twas-the-night-before-voting\/","title":{"rendered":"T&#8217;was the night before voting &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An excerpt. The rest <a href=\"https:\/\/fee.org\/articles\/the-night-before-voting-a-satirical-adaptation-of-clement-c-moore-s-classic-poem\/\" target=\"_blank\">is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nT&#8217;was the night before voting when all through the land,<br \/>\nCollectivists were clamoring to take command.<br \/>\nTheir platforms were posted on Facebook with care,<br \/>\nIn hopes that Control! soon would be theirs.<br \/>\nBernistas were nestled all snug in their beds,<br \/>\nWhile dreams of \u201cfree\u201d college danced in their heads.<\/p>\n<p>And the socialists of the left, and the protectionists of the right,<br \/>\nHad a common enemy: free trade, to fight.<br \/>\nWhen down in the market there arose such a clatter,<br \/>\nThey suspended debating to see what was the matter!<br \/>\nAway to their telescreens they flew like a flash.<br \/>\nHorror of horrors! Prols with cash!!<\/p>\n<p>The storefront displays and the new fallen snow<br \/>\nRevealed Prols toting packages! How could it be so?<br \/>\nWhen what to their statist eyes should appear,<br \/>\nBut imports from China and lands far and near!<br \/>\nHappy people exchanging with opportunism,<br \/>\nThey hissed at each other: \u201ccapitalism!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More rapid than rats, the bureaucrats they came.<br \/>\nThey pointed and shouted, \u201cYour greed is to blame!\u201d<br \/>\nNow taxes! Now tariffs! Now more legislation!<br \/>\nIt must be the state that directs all creation!<br \/>\nMedicare without limits, and we must build a wall.<br \/>\nNow tax away, tax away, tax away all!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(A play on you-know-what by Erik P. Brown)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An excerpt. The rest is here. T&#8217;was the night before voting when all through the land, Collectivists were clamoring to take command. Their platforms were posted on Facebook with care, In hopes that Control! soon would be theirs. Bernistas were nestled all snug in their beds, While dreams of \u201cfree\u201d college danced in their heads. And the socialists of the left, and the protectionists of the right, Had a common enemy: free trade, to fight. When down in the market there arose such a clatter, They suspended debating to see what was the matter! Away to their telescreens they flew&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/05\/twas-the-night-before-voting\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">T&#8217;was the night before voting &#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39428"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39432,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39428\/revisions\/39432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}