{"id":7793,"date":"2016-06-09T07:35:51","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T13:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/?p=7793"},"modified":"2016-06-09T08:01:34","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T14:01:34","slug":"tantrums-and-crybullies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2016\/06\/tantrums-and-crybullies\/","title":{"rendered":"tantrums and crybullies"},"content":{"rendered":"

The commissioners race has sorted out in Elbert County. Limited-government people support the Richardson\/Wills pair. Pro-government-action people support the Whistler\/Thayer pair.<\/p>\n

I haven\u2019t seen any exceptions to this sort.<\/p>\n

The ballots are out, and the county, at-large, gets to vote on all commissioner districts, notwithstanding in which commissioner district a voter resides.<\/p>\n

This is all on the Republican primary ticket, which effectively constitutes a general election in Elbert County.<\/p>\n

The limited-government cohort seem quite willing to discuss issues and philosophies. The pro-government-action cohort, not so much. They express discomfort with rebuttals to their belief system in a variety of collateral ways that shut down further discussion – crybullying, shunning, mau mauing, innuendo, and various character assassinations.<\/p>\n

The pro-government-action people seem conflicted and upset at having to defend their chosen positions. I expect that they learned their positions when they were young, and instead of moving on in adulthood, they found a political home that liked them just the way they were.<\/p>\n

I know that the above analysis will infuriate the pro-government-action people, and I take no pleasure in having to deliver the message. But tantrums are no way to run a county. It\u2019s past time mature voters stood up to the crybullies.
\n\"Brooks<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The commissioners race has sorted out in Elbert County. Limited-government people support the Richardson\/Wills pair. Pro-government-action people support the Whistler\/Thayer pair. I haven\u2019t seen any exceptions to this sort. The ballots are out, and the county, at-large, gets to vote on all commissioner districts, notwithstanding in which commissioner district a voter resides. This is all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[57,8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7793","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-photography","7":"category-politics","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7793"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7795,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7793\/revisions\/7795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}