{"id":18928,"date":"2022-09-07T05:58:16","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T03:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=18928"},"modified":"2022-09-07T06:02:51","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T04:02:51","slug":"18928","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=18928","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scheerpost.com\/2022\/09\/05\/chris-hedges-lets-stop-pretending-america-is-a-functioning-democracy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chris Hedges<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There is a fatal disconnect between a political system that promises democratic equality and freedom while carrying out socioeconomic injustices that result in grotesque income inequality and political stagnation.<\/p>\n<p>Decades in the making, this disconnect has extinguished American democracy. The steady stripping away of economic and political power was ignored by a hyper\u00adventilating press that thundered against the barbarians at the <span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">gate \u2014<\/span> <span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">Osama bin Laden<\/span>, Saddam Hussein, the Taliban, ISIS, Vladimir Putin \u2014 while ignoring the barbarians in our midst. The slow-motion coup is over. Corporations and the billionaire class have won. There are no institutions, including the press, an electoral system that is little more than legalized bribery, the imperial presidency, the courts or the penal system, that can be defined as democratic. Only the fiction of democracy remains.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Hedges: There is a fatal disconnect between a political system that promises democratic equality and freedom while carrying out socioeconomic injustices that result in grotesque income inequality and political stagnation. Decades in the making, this disconnect has extinguished American &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=18928\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}