{"id":7086,"date":"2015-04-04T07:07:10","date_gmt":"2015-04-04T12:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7086"},"modified":"2015-04-04T07:07:10","modified_gmt":"2015-04-04T12:07:10","slug":"peter-thiel-blasts-the-american-political-system-is-not-a-democracy-or-constitutional-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7086","title":{"rendered":"Peter Thiel Blasts: The American Political System Is &#8220;Not A Democracy Or Constitutional Republic&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2015-04-03\/peter-thiel-blasts-american-political-system-not-democracy-or-constitutional-republi\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Thiel Blasts: The American Political System Is &#8220;Not A Democracy Or Constitutional Republic&#8221;<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>The obvious conclusion that the U.S. is neither\u00a0a democracy nor\u00a0a constitutional republic has been a key topic of conversation here at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/\">Liberty Blitzkrieg<\/a>\u00a0over the past several years. One of the most powerful representations of this unfortunate fact came from an academic study highlighted last year:\u00a0<em><a title=\"Permanent Link to New Report from Princeton and Northwestern Proves It: The U.S. is an Oligarchy\" href=\"http:\/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/2014\/04\/16\/new-report-from-princeton-and-northwestern-proves-it-the-u-s-is-an-oligarchy\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">New Report from Princeton and Northwestern Proves It: The U.S. is an Oligarchy<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A couple of days ago, Peter Thiel sat down with Tyler Cower at George Mason University\u2019s Mercatus center for a chat about all sorts of interesting things. The\u00a0<em>Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0picked up on some of his thoughts\u00a0regarding the American political system, which I think deserve some additional commentary.<\/p>\n<p>On the one hand, he accurately identifies the U.S. as nothing resembling either a democracy or a constitutional republic. He then\u00a0goes on to point out that the system we have is one in which the power is increasingly concentrated in undemocratic, \u201ctechnocratic\u201d agencies. Where I think he falls way short is with a failure to ask what interests are driving the decisions of these undemocratic entities. Any unbiased observer can clearly see that it is oligarchs driving the oligarchy, as opposed to independent thinking bureaucratic technocrats driving a technocracy. I have published countless articles proving this to be the case. Naturally,\u00a0a billionaire might have a harder time recognizing\u00a0this.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Thiel Blasts: The American Political System Is &#8220;Not A Democracy Or Constitutional Republic&#8221; The obvious conclusion that the U.S. is neither\u00a0a democracy nor\u00a0a constitutional republic has been a key topic of conversation here at\u00a0Liberty Blitzkrieg\u00a0over the past several years. One of the most powerful representations of this unfortunate fact came from an academic study [&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":[4616,204,4285,1092,4617,4345,827],"class_list":["post-7086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-constitutional-republic","tag-democracy","tag-liberty-blitzkrieg","tag-oligarchy","tag-peter-thiel","tag-political-system","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7086","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=7086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7087,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7086\/revisions\/7087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}