{"id":32597,"date":"2018-03-21T06:02:13","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T11:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=32597"},"modified":"2018-03-21T06:02:44","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T11:02:44","slug":"time-is-running-out-who-will-protect-our-wrecked-democracy-from-the-american-oligarchy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=32597","title":{"rendered":"Time is Running Out: Who Will Protect Our Wrecked Democracy from the American Oligarchy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"headline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/03\/21\/time-is-running-out-who-will-protect-our-wrecked-democracy-from-the-american-oligarchy\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Time is Running Out: Who Will Protect Our Wrecked Democracy from the American Oligarchy?<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<div id=\"attachment_100650\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-100650\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-20-at-8.29.20-PM.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-20-at-8.29.20-PM.png 510w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-20-at-8.29.20-PM-300x201.png 300w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-20-at-8.29.20-PM-768x515.png 768w\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"342\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Joe Schueller | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p>There\u2019s been an interesting debate over the years about the relation between capitalism and democracy, for example, are they even compatible? I won\u2019t be pursuing this because I\u2019d like to discuss a different system \u2013 what we could call the \u201creally existing capitalist democracy,\u201d RECD for short, pronounced \u201cwrecked.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/visions\/chomsky-us-poses-number-threats-future-humanity-our-youll-never-hear-about-it-our-free-press\">Noam Chomsky, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s incredible. Here we are fifteen months into the horrific, arch-plutocratic right-wing Donald Trump presidency and still the United States (U.S.) has done nothing to protect its elections and its broader political culture from the vicious oligarchs who have subverted U.S. \u201cdemocracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 2018 mid-term Congressional elections are only months away.\u00a0 Major party primary races are in full swing right now.\u00a0Is the nation really going to stand by twiddling its thumbs while more U.S. elections and the nation\u2019s politics are hijacked by kleptocratic interlopers and the treasonous politicos who collude with them? \u00a0Time is running out!<\/p>\n<p>No, I\u2019m not talking about Russian hackers, schemers, and bots.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry, this isn\u2019t MSDNC, I mean MSNBC.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m talking about something monumentally more powerful than Russia when it comes to influencing U.S. politics and policy. \u00a0I\u2019m referring to the U.S. oligarchs and their highly-placed agents and allies, who make sure that there is no \u201cgreat [U.S.-of] American democracy\u201d for Russia to subvert.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cBeyond Plutocracy\u201d: The Permanent Political Class (PPC)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Just what grand U.S. model of American popular self-rule and sovereignty is there for Russia to undermine?<\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t exist.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time is Running Out: Who Will Protect Our Wrecked Democracy from the American Oligarchy? Photo by Joe Schueller | CC BY 2.0 There\u2019s been an interesting debate over the years about the relation between capitalism and democracy, for example, are they even compatible? I won\u2019t be pursuing this because I\u2019d like to discuss a different [&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":[6],"tags":[5493,204,7844,1092,15269,827],"class_list":["post-32597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-counterpunch","tag-democracy","tag-donald-trump","tag-oligarchy","tag-paul-street","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32597","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=32597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32598,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32597\/revisions\/32598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}