{"id":880,"date":"2015-05-01T12:22:44","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T17:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=880"},"modified":"2015-05-01T12:22:44","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T17:22:44","slug":"wisconsin-petty-politics-nightmare-ctd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/05\/01\/wisconsin-petty-politics-nightmare-ctd\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Petty Politics Nightmare, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With regard to this <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/04\/30\/wisconsin-petty-politics-nightmare\/\" target=\"_blank\">post<\/a>, a Facebook correspondent remarks,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span data-reactid=\".3.1:3:1:$comment1061474740546824_1061873153840316:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1\"><span data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\" data-reactid=\".3.1:3:1:$comment1061474740546824_1061873153840316:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body\"><span class=\"UFICommentBody\" data-reactid=\".3.1:3:1:$comment1061474740546824_1061873153840316:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0\"><span data-reactid=\".3.1:3:1:$comment1061474740546824_1061873153840316:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0\">I don&#8217;t understand how that law&#8217;s directive that a person cannot even talk to their lawyer can be constitutional.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nor do I.\u00a0 As an engineer I like stable systems with predictable behaviors.\u00a0 In the area of campaign finances I&#8217;ve seen proposals for public financing come and go; restrictions on financing gradually eroded, until predictions on the size of your war-chest just to play in the next Presidential election have reached <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloombergview.com\/articles\/2015-04-26\/how-record-spending-will-affect-2016-election\" target=\"_blank\">$2 billion<\/a>.\u00a0 People are upset on both sides of the aisle (i.e., system instability), but there doesn&#8217;t seem to be a way to modify the system acceptable to courts and candidates.\u00a0 Perhaps this is a continuous rupture in the side of American-style democracy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Alternate conclusion: when you&#8217;re the pre-eminent nation in the world, the scramble to the very top of the pyramid results in surreal landscapes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With regard to this post, a Facebook correspondent remarks, I don&#8217;t understand how that law&#8217;s directive that a person cannot even talk to their lawyer can be constitutional. Nor do I.\u00a0 As an engineer I like stable systems with predictable behaviors.\u00a0 In the area of campaign finances I&#8217;ve seen proposals \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/05\/01\/wisconsin-petty-politics-nightmare-ctd\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":881,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions\/881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}