{"id":8187,"date":"2017-03-06T16:47:53","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T22:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/?p=8187"},"modified":"2017-03-06T17:05:41","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T23:05:41","slug":"the-least-common-denominator-strikes-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2017\/03\/the-least-common-denominator-strikes-again\/","title":{"rendered":"The least common denominator strikes again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elbert County Democrats will be pleased to learn that the Facebook group Elbert County Republicans has torn a page from the Elbert County Citizens Facebook group and begun ejecting members with whom the moderators disagree. This practice <em>infuriates<\/em> me as it completely discredits the whole point of being a Republican, a political philosophy built on a foundation of reasonable and defensible ideas.<\/p>\n<p>When a Republican must resort to high school clique antics to defend a position, then he should not be in a position of power over the publication of other&#8217;s ideas, Republican or whatever.\u00a0Censorship is a notorious Democrat tool. A Republican who uses it has signed up for the wrong party.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">~<\/h2>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u2014for if Men are to be precluded from offering their sentiments on a matter, which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences, that can invite the consideration of Mankind; reason is of no use to us\u2014the freedom of Speech may be taken away\u2014and, dumb &amp; silent we may be led, like sheep, to the Slaughter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/founders.archives.gov\/documents\/Washington\/99-01-02-10840\" target=\"blank\">From George Washington to Officers of the Army, 15 March 1783<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elbert County Democrats will be pleased to learn that the Facebook group Elbert County Republicans has torn a page from the Elbert County Citizens Facebook group and begun ejecting members with whom the moderators disagree. This practice infuriates me as it completely discredits the whole point of being a Republican, a political philosophy built on [&hellip;]<\/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":[83,177],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8187","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-democrats","7":"category-republicans","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8187","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=8187"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8194,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8187\/revisions\/8194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}