{"id":4288,"date":"2020-09-09T01:13:11","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T01:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/?p=4288"},"modified":"2020-09-09T01:13:11","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T01:13:11","slug":"letter-to-the-editor-confused-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/09\/letter-to-the-editor-confused-voters\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the editor: Confused Voters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I used to be a dumb, lazy&nbsp;voter, but not anymore!&nbsp;&nbsp;Na\u00efve, ignorant, stupid, dumb&nbsp;voters is exactly what most of the wealthy people, corporations and lobbyist want us to be.&nbsp;&nbsp;Why?&nbsp;&nbsp;Because they know if you&#8217;re educated and interested and care about your needs and issues, then you will vote against their interest and needs and they don&#8217;t want that!&nbsp;&nbsp;Why?&nbsp;&nbsp;Because if you vote against their interest they lose money and they lose power and their wealth will go down.&nbsp;&nbsp;So they do everything they can to keep you occupied, angry, confused and stupid.&nbsp;&nbsp;They do this by giving you fake news, useless news, exaggerates stories and putting the blame on other people, groups countries or systems to make it look like it&#8217;s their fault that you have so many problems with your life.&nbsp;&nbsp;The corporations overwhelm you with TV shows, advertisement, video games and web sites to teach you to be docile, dumb, obedient and loyal to their profit and power needs.&nbsp;&nbsp;This explains why we have such a large wealth inequality gap.&nbsp;&nbsp;This explains why we have such a bad COVID-19 government response. This explains why we have mostly a two Party political system.&nbsp;&nbsp;This explains why we have so much racism. If you don&#8217;t believe me then just do your own research online or ask other professionals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you for reading this article. I hope some of you will wake up and get involved in making our county a better place. Please, Question everything and never stop learning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tomas Cantu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to be a dumb, lazy&nbsp;voter, but not anymore!&nbsp;&nbsp;Na\u00efve, ignorant, stupid, dumb&nbsp;voters is exactly what most of the wealthy people, corporations and lobbyist want&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128,7],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[148],"class_list":["post-4288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-opinion"],"aioseo_notices":[],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"authors":[{"term_id":148,"user_id":1,"is_guest":0,"slug":"newspaper1","display_name":"Newspaper1","avatar_url":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/wp-content\/litespeed\/avatar\/4a77f0ffb334571ac8b76aa48f1ac4d7.jpg?ver=1778637593","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4289,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4288\/revisions\/4289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4288"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=4288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}