{"id":98,"date":"2009-12-23T23:39:52","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T23:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/?p=98"},"modified":"2014-10-01T20:23:21","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T20:23:21","slug":"republicrat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/2009\/12\/republicrat\/","title":{"rendered":"republicrat"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre> Difference in such a system is reduced to catchy,\r\nemotional sound bites, which serve to polarize viewers, spectators and\r\nultimately, voters, while simulating difference - enacting a facade of\r\npolitical diversity.\r\n\r\nIn the end, the winners in such a set-up - that amounts to a\r\nperpetual, media-sparring match for cap feathers among the\r\nself-appointed wealthy and commercial society elected, or 'electable,'\r\ncontestants - are the corporations, who infuse enough capital to the\r\nRepubli-crat majority to decide the outcomes of political policy\r\nquestions. So the corporations (and aristocratic interests) get what\r\nthey want, at the expense of the rank and file public, year after\r\nyear, ad infinitum.<\/pre>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=ec353a3a-c263-8ef2-89a1-fa186e74ecdc\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Difference in such a system is reduced to catchy, emotional sound bites, which serve to polarize viewers, spectators and ultimately, voters, while simulating difference &#8211; enacting a facade of political diversity. In the end, the winners in such a set-up &#8211; that amounts to a perpetual, media-sparring match for cap feathers among the self-appointed wealthy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15,69],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-media","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316,"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}