{"id":29084,"date":"2017-12-22T07:12:17","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T12:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29084"},"modified":"2017-12-22T07:12:17","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T12:12:17","slug":"americans-are-only-now-beginning-to-learn-that-we-live-in-a-dictatorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29084","title":{"rendered":"Americans Are Only Now Beginning to Learn that We Live in a Dictatorship"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Americans Are Only Now Beginning to Learn that We Live in a Dictatorship<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n

The first time when it became clear\u00a0to\u00a0me that I live in a dictatorship was in 2014 when reading, prior\u00a0to\u00a0its publication, the landmark (and still the\u00a0only<\/em>) scientific empirical study\u00a0to\u00a0address the question as\u00a0to\u00a0whether or not the United States federal Government is, authentically, a democracy \u2014 or, whether, alternatively, it’s instead more of a dictatorship, than a democracy. This study documented conclusively that America’s Government is the latter.<\/p>\n

So, on 14 April 2014, I headlined\u00a0\u201cUS Is an Oligarchy, Not a Democracy, Says Scientific Study\u201d<\/a>. Subsequently, my editor\u00a0linked it\u00a0to\u00a0the published article at the Journal where the study was published,\u00a0Perspectives on Politics<\/em>, from the American Political Science Association<\/a>, and the full study can be read there.<\/p>\n

On 30 April 2014, was posted at youtube the video that remains,\u00a0to\u00a0this day, the best and clearest ordinary-language summary of what that badly-written academic study proved. See its explanation here:<\/p>\n