{"id":218,"date":"2008-10-04T09:22:31","date_gmt":"2008-10-04T14:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/?p=218"},"modified":"2008-10-04T09:22:31","modified_gmt":"2008-10-04T14:22:31","slug":"spells-for-democracy-october-2008-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/04\/spells-for-democracy-october-2008-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Spells for Democracy: October 2008 Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re coming down to the end of the campaigns and the actual voting. Here&#8217;s what we need to be doing in the next few weeks to assure a fair and honest election. Pick one and get to work!<\/p>\n<p>Do the mundane stuff: Make sure you and your friends and neighbors are registered to vote and have not been accidentally-on-purpose purged from the voting rolls (see previous blog post). Volunteer to work at the polls. If you have a legal background, volunteer with the ACLU and other groups keeping an eye on the process.<\/p>\n<p>Do the magical stuff:<\/p>\n<ul>\nContinue with protection spells on the candidates.<\/p>\n<p>Continue with revelation spells on the candidates and the White House, so that everyone&#8217;s true intentions are made public.<\/p>\n<p>Find your local polling place(s) and do protection and honesty spells on the buildings.<\/p>\n<p>Do binding spells on election officials to force them to keep their oaths of office.<\/p>\n<p>Do binding spells on the warmongers in the White House and the Pentagon to prevent any last minute &#8220;surprises&#8221; that would &#8220;justify&#8221; postponing or canceling the elections.\n<\/ul>\n<p>Remember, if the spell you want to do would be ethical if done physically, then it&#8217;s ethical to do it magically.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re coming down to the end of the campaigns and the actual voting. Here&#8217;s what we need to be doing in the next few weeks to assure a fair and honest election. Pick one and get to work! Do the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/04\/spells-for-democracy-october-2008-edition\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[90,91,89],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magic","category-politics","tag-election","tag-polling","tag-spells-for-democracy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}