{"id":14574,"date":"2013-07-19T06:30:15","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T13:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=14574"},"modified":"2013-07-19T06:30:15","modified_gmt":"2013-07-19T13:30:15","slug":"america-has-no-functioning-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/19\/america-has-no-functioning-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;America has no functioning democracy&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow. I never thought I&#8217;d agree with Jimmy Carter about much of anything, let alone <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/weblogs\/political-insider\/2013\/jul\/19\/your-daily-jolt-america-has-no-functioning-democra\/\" target=\"_blank\">agree with him twice in one week<\/a>. But if he actually said, &#8220;America has no functioning democracy at this moment&#8221; (referring to revelations of omni-snooping), then we are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2013\/07\/14\/illegitimate\/\" target=\"_blank\">totally on the same<\/a> radical track.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. media didn&#8217;t cover the event where he made reportedly made the remark. But <i>Der Spiegel<\/i>, a decently reliable source, did.<\/p>\n<p>Think on it. A respected* former president of the U.S., a man of the party now in power, observes that his country is no longer of, by, and for the people. That&#8217;s a stunner.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>* Incompetent as prez, of course. But seemingly one of the few actually decent human beings ever to hold the office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow. I never thought I&#8217;d agree with Jimmy Carter about much of anything, let alone agree with him twice in one week. But if he actually said, &#8220;America has no functioning democracy at this moment&#8221; (referring to revelations of omni-snooping), then we are totally on the same radical track. The U.S. media didn&#8217;t cover the event where he made reportedly made the remark. But Der Spiegel, a decently reliable source, did. Think on it. A respected* former president of the U.S., a man of the party now in power, observes that his country is no longer of, by, and for&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/19\/america-has-no-functioning-democracy\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;America has no functioning democracy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}