{"id":37176,"date":"2018-08-30T08:14:50","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T13:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37176"},"modified":"2018-08-30T08:14:50","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T13:14:50","slug":"how-corrupt-americas-dictators-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37176","title":{"rendered":"How Corrupt America\u2019s Dictators Are"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/washingtonsblog.com\/2018\/08\/how-corrupt-americas-dictators-are.html\">How Corrupt America\u2019s Dictators Are<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Yet another poll confirms that America\u2019s dictatorial clique take advantage of the ignorance and gullibility of the average person so that the clique\u2019s politicians can win votes no matter how much these politicians block passage and enforcement of any proposed laws that the dictators don\u2019t want to pass or to be enforced. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In this latest case, the owners of the insurance companies refuse to allow single-payer (i.e., tax-financed, as opposed to for-profit) health insurance, though three-quarters of the American people, in the latest poll, want it, and though past polls (which likewise were hidden from the public) also overwhelmingly indicate that the public want it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">For decades now, the owners have blocked it, though the public have overwhelmingly wanted it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">This is an excellent example of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/america-is-one-dollar-one-vote-not-really-one-person-one-vote\/5646114\"><span class=\"s3\">the consistent finding in the empirical political-science literature, that the U.S. is a dictatorship by the richest against the public, and not actually a democracy at all<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This particular poll-finding was a poll taken by Ipsos for the Reuters \u2019news\u2019-agency and was made public by Reuters on August 23rd; and what Ipsos found, regarding this matter, was effectively kept secret by the sponsoring \u2019news\u2019-organization (Reuters), by their burying it within a bad article that Reuters issued under an almost unrelated headline, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/investigates\/special-report\/usa-election-progressives\/\"><span class=\"s3\">\u201cInside the progressive movement roiling the Democratic Party\u201d<\/span><\/a>, in which report, this finding didn\u2019t even pertain to \u201cthe progressive movement roiling the Democratic Party\u201d (the article\u2019s alleged topic) but instead, pertained to the entire U.S. electorate, and was merely found to be more pronounced among Democrats than it was among Republicans \u2014 as it long has been, and so that\u2019s not even news at all. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Corrupt America\u2019s Dictators Are Yet another poll confirms that America\u2019s dictatorial clique take advantage of the ignorance and gullibility of the average person so that the clique\u2019s politicians can win votes no matter how much these politicians block passage and enforcement of any proposed laws that the dictators don\u2019t want to pass or to [&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":[1769,204,10584,4394,827,5510],"class_list":["post-37176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-corruption","tag-democracy","tag-dictators","tag-eric-zuesse","tag-united-states","tag-washingtons-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37176","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=37176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37177,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37176\/revisions\/37177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}