{"id":34375,"date":"2018-05-20T06:52:54","date_gmt":"2018-05-20T11:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34375"},"modified":"2018-05-20T06:52:54","modified_gmt":"2018-05-20T11:52:54","slug":"how-democracy-ended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34375","title":{"rendered":"How Democracy Ended"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"How<\/p>\n

How Democracy Ended<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n

What killed\u00a0democracy\u00a0was constant lying to the public, by politicians whose only way to win national public office is to represent the interests of the super-rich at the same time as the given politician publicly promises to represent the interests of the public \u2014 \u201cand may the better liar win!\u201d \u2014 it\u2019s a lying-contest. When\u00a0democracy\u00a0degenerates into that, it becomes dictatorship by the richest, the people who can fund the most lying. Such a government is an aristocracy, no\u00a0democracy\u00a0at all, because the aristocracy rule, the public don\u2019t. It\u2019s the type of government that the French Revolution was against and overthrew; and it\u2019s the type of government that the American Revolution was against and overthrew; but it has been restored in both countries.<\/p>\n

First here will be discussed France:<\/p>\n

On 7 May 2017,\u00a0Emmanuel Macron<\/a>\u00a0was elected President of France with 66.1% of the vote, compared to Marine Le Pen’s 33.9%. That was the second round of voting; the first round had been: Macron 24.0%, Le Pen 21.3% Fillon 20.0%, Melenchon 19.6%, and others 15%; so, the only clear dominator in that 11-candidate contest was Macron, who, in the second round, turned out to have been the second choice of most of the voters for the other candidates. Thus, whereas Le Pen rose from 21.3% to 33.9% in the second round (a 59% increase in her percentage of the vote), Macron rose from 24.0% to 66.1% in the second round (a 275% increase in his percentage of the vote). In other words: Macron didn\u2019t just barely win the Presidency, but he clearly dominated both rounds; it was never at all close. But once in office he very quickly disappointed the French public:<\/p>\n

On 11 August 2017,\u00a0Le Figaro\u00a0bannered (as autotranslated by Google Chrome)\u00a0“A hundred days later, Macron confronted with the skepticism of the French\u201d<\/a>, and reported that 36% were \u201csatisfied\u201d and 64% were \u201cdissatisfied\u201d with the new President.<\/p>\n

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How Democracy Ended What killed\u00a0democracy\u00a0was constant lying to the public, by politicians whose only way to win national public office is to represent the interests of the super-rich at the same time as the given politician publicly promises to represent the interests of the public \u2014 \u201cand may the better liar win!\u201d \u2014 it\u2019s a […]<\/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":[4863,204,4394,333,379,3977,1577,8203,827],"class_list":["post-34375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-aristocracy","tag-democracy","tag-eric-zuesse","tag-france","tag-government","tag-lying","tag-politicians","tag-strategic-culture-foundation","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34375","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=34375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34376,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34375\/revisions\/34376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}