I think the Hayter reading was really interesting and really gives insight into how local people can have an impact on the national level with his focus on voting policies. Despite all of the stress put on voting in your elections and your civic duties as citizens of getting engaged in your local and national politics, there is this harmful idea that your vote does not count or make a difference. But as Hayter points out through his Richmond example, people have the ability to generate change and push progress forward. I think back to the November’s election with so many questions over the legitimacy of local and national elections. It was very evident to see how the results were questioned, especially in states like Georgia, when looking at the statistics it just goes to show the power of people showing up to vote (many of those new voters being\u00a0 minorities which have had their voices denied in the past). With the new Georgia voting law, we are seeing the rise in people supporting companies pulling out of the state like with the MLB moving the all-star game out of Atlanta. With legislative bodies having the power to limit people’s voices and make the final decisions in the end, it is so important to not forget the power that voters and organizations can have in these decisions as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I think the Hayter reading was really interesting and really gives insight into how local people can have an impact on the national level with his focus on voting policies. Despite all of the stress put on voting in your elections and your civic duties as citizens of getting engaged in your local and national […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5096,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading-responses"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5096"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7100,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7094\/revisions\/7100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}