{"id":1259,"date":"2014-11-08T08:47:59","date_gmt":"2014-11-08T13:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1259"},"modified":"2014-11-09T07:13:32","modified_gmt":"2014-11-09T12:13:32","slug":"ron-paul-we-dont-have-a-democracy-the-us-political-system-is-a-monopoly-zero-hedge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1259","title":{"rendered":"Ron Paul: &#8220;We Don&#8217;t Have A Democracy&#8230; The US Political System Is A Monopoly&#8221; | Zero Hedge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2014-11-07\/ron-paul-we-dont-have-democracy-us-political-system-monopoly\">Ron Paul: &#8220;We Don&#8217;t Have A Democracy&#8230; The US Political System Is A Monopoly&#8221; | Zero Hedge<\/a><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, sans-serif; font-style: italic; line-height: 17px; color: #000000;\"><em>\u00a0&#8220;If a third party person gets anywhere along, they are going to do everything they can to stop that from happening,&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0blasts Ron Paul,\u00a0<a style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #1e439a;\" href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/usa\/202295-ron-paul-midterm-elections\/\">explaining to RT&#8217;s Erin Ade<\/a>\u00a0that the &#8216;monopoly&#8217; system run by the leaders of the two main parties was all too evident as Americans went to the polls this week. &#8220;<strong>It&#8217;s a monopoly<\/strong>&#8230; and they don\u2019t even allow a second option,&#8221; Paul concluded, lashing out that &#8220;<strong>here at home, we don\u2019t have true Democracy.<\/strong>&#8220;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.25em; margin-bottom: 0.75em; display: block;\"><a style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #1e439a;\" href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/usa\/202295-ron-paul-midterm-elections\/\"><em>As RT reports,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"position: relative; font-style: italic; padding: 1em !important; margin: 1em !important 2em !important 1em !important 2em !important;\">\n<p style=\"width: inherit !important; display: block; margin: 0px !important;\">Paul, a longtime Republican, has been critical of the two-party dichotomy that dominates American politics for decades, and once ran as the Libertarian Party\u2019s nominee for president of the United States. While third-party candidates continue to vie against the left and right establishment, however,<strong>Paul warned RT that even the two-party system as Americans know it is in danger.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/div>\n<div>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ron Paul: &#8220;We Don&#8217;t Have A Democracy&#8230; The US Political System Is A Monopoly&#8221; | Zero Hedge\u00a0&#8220;If a third party person gets anywhere along, they are going to do everything they can to stop that from happening,&#8221;\u00a0blasts Ron Paul,\u00a0explaining to RT&#8217;s Erin Ade\u00a0that the &#8216;monopoly&#8217; system run by the leaders of the two main parties [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[692,960,834,843],"class_list":["post-1259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-ron-paul","tag-two-party-system","tag-us","tag-us-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1259"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1284,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions\/1284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}