{"id":55776,"date":"2020-11-27T07:28:20","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T12:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55776"},"modified":"2020-11-27T07:28:20","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T12:28:20","slug":"chris-hedges-the-ruling-elites-war-on-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55776","title":{"rendered":"Chris Hedges: The Ruling Elite\u2019s War on Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chris Hedges: The Ruling Elite\u2019s War on Truth<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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American political leaders display a widening disconnect from reality intended to mask their complicity in the seizure of power by global corporations and billionaires.<\/strong>
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Original illustration by Mr. Fish. (Scheerpost)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

J<\/strong>oe Biden\u2019s victory instantly obliterated the Democratic Party\u2019s longstanding charge that Russia was hijacking and compromising U.S. elections. The Biden victory, the Democratic Party leaders and their courtiers in the media now insist, is evidence that the democratic process is strong and untainted, that the system works. The elections ratified the will of the people.<\/p>\n

But imagine if Donald Trump had been reelected. Would the Democrats and pundits at\u00a0The New York Time<\/em>s<\/em>, CNN and MSNBC pay homage to a fair electoral process? Or, having spent four years trying to impugn the integrity of the 2016 presidential race, would they once again haul out the blunt instrument of Russian interference to paint Trump as Vladimir Putin\u2019s Manchurian candidate?<\/p>\n

Trump and his attorney Rudy\u00a0Giuliani are vulgar and buffoonish, but they play the same slimy game as their Democratic opponents.\u00a0The Republicans scapegoat the deep state, communists and now, bizarrely, Venezuela; the Democrats scapegoat Russia. The widening disconnect from reality by the ruling elite is intended to mask their complicity in the seizure of power by predatory global corporations and billionaires.<\/p>\n

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Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani in 2019.\u00a0(Gage Skidmore, Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cThis is a disgraceful thing that was done in this country,\u201d Giuliani said at his recent bad-hair-day press conference. \u201cProbably not much more disgraceful than the things these people did in office, which you didn\u2019t and don\u2019t bother to cover and you conceal from the American people, but we let this happen, we use largely a Venezuelan voting machine in essence to count our vote…<\/p>\n

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Chris Hedges: The Ruling Elite\u2019s War on Truth American political leaders display a widening disconnect from reality intended to mask their complicity in the seizure of power by global corporations and billionaires. Original illustration by Mr. Fish. (Scheerpost) Joe Biden\u2019s victory instantly obliterated the Democratic Party\u2019s longstanding charge that Russia was hijacking and compromising U.S. […]<\/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":[9035,6963,2299,14545,643,6979,1250,827,978,12380,30631],"class_list":["post-55776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-chris-hedges","tag-consortium-news","tag-control","tag-narrative-control","tag-power","tag-ruling-elite","tag-truth","tag-united-states","tag-us-politics","tag-us-presidential-election","tag-war-on-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55776","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=55776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55777,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55776\/revisions\/55777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}