{"id":17857,"date":"2016-02-16T14:02:58","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T19:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=17857"},"modified":"2016-02-16T14:02:58","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T19:02:58","slug":"01-always-devolve-republics-into-oligarchies-co-opt-all-revolutions-so-how-can-this-coming-revolution-create-lasting-victory-of-virtue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=17857","title":{"rendered":".01% always devolve republics into oligarchies, co-opt all revolutions; so how can this coming revolution create lasting victory of virtue?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2016\/02\/01-always-devolve-republics-oligarchies-co-opt-revolutions-can-coming-revolution-create-lasting-victory-virtue.html\" target=\"_blank\">.01% always devolve republics into oligarchies, co-opt all revolutions; so how can this coming revolution create lasting victory of virtue?<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-meta\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user1959725\"><i>PuppetGov<\/i><\/a>\u2019s 6-minute video,\u00a0<i>We are the ones we\u2019ve been waiting for<\/i>:<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jROlnhfNT8U?feature=oembed\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I keep three coins in my pocket: a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcgscoinfacts.com\/Coin\/Detail\/6179\">US silver Half-Dollar from 1839<\/a>\u00a0that my grandfather also kept in his pocket, an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.coincommunity.com\/forum\/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=230773\">American colonial copper Halfpenny from 1749<\/a>, and a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cointalk.com\/threads\/a-roman-republican-bronze-overstrike-from-the-second-punic-war.269278\/\">Roman Republic bronze Triens from 211\/210 BC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I carry them to connect me to family (biological and spiritual), and to the work of realizing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Age_of_Enlightenment\">Enlightenment and US founding ideals<\/a>\u00a0of truth, technology, and love.<\/p>\n<p>Those ideals have never been realized on Earth for long. Human status of having every revolution and movement co-opted\/<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Recuperation_(politics)\">recuperated<\/a>\u00a0by our .01% oligarchs is important to consider in light of Earth\u2019s status of ending today\u2019s .01%\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2015\/05\/seizing-an-alternative-recognizing-the-emperors-new-clothes-as-the-story-of-today-1-of-7.html\"><i>Emperor\u2019s New Clothes<\/i><\/a>\u00a0obvious crimes centering in war, money, and lies.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll use these three coins to illustrate status, and consider areas of strength for lasting victory of virtue.<\/p>\n<p><b>1839<\/b>: This coin was struck just 13 years after the death of Thomas Jefferson, when Abe Lincoln was 20, and seven years before\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2015\/02\/teaching-critical-thinking-high-school-students-us-government-researchpresentation-5-2-6.html\">Lincoln would prove US President Polk was a war-mongering and treaty-violating liar to steal half of Mexico in 1846<\/a>. My grandfather who carried this coin told the story that as a boy he would shake hands with the old-timer who told stories of shaking Lincoln\u2019s hand. Both of my grandfathers were lied-into\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2015\/02\/teaching-critical-thinking-high-school-students-us-government-researchpresentation-5-3-6.html\">WW1, which had nothing to do with promises of another US President to \u201cmake the world safe for democracy,\u201d and a \u201cwar to end all wars.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0In connection to wars for every generation, my father, father-in-law, and only uncle experienced horrific \u201cwar service\u201d in WW2. My older brother would have been drafted into the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2015\/02\/teaching-critical-thinking-high-school-students-us-government-researchpresentation-5-3-6.html\">illegal and lie-started Vietnam War<\/a>\u00a0had it continued another year.<br \/>\n<span id=\"more-53898\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>.01% always devolve republics into oligarchies, co-opt all revolutions; so how can this coming revolution create lasting victory of virtue? PuppetGov\u2019s 6-minute video,\u00a0We are the ones we\u2019ve been waiting for: I keep three coins in my pocket: a\u00a0US silver Half-Dollar from 1839\u00a0that my grandfather also kept in his pocket, an\u00a0American colonial copper Halfpenny from 1749, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[2,6],"tags":[11627,1092,4335,685,5510],"class_list":["post-17857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-liberty","tag-carl-herman","tag-oligarchy","tag-republic","tag-revolution","tag-washingtons-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17857","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=17857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17858,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17857\/revisions\/17858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}