{"id":315,"date":"2011-12-15T17:50:53","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T17:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/?p=315"},"modified":"2011-12-15T17:50:53","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T17:50:53","slug":"we-need-to-eliminate-all-private-finance-from-the-electoral-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/12\/15\/we-need-to-eliminate-all-private-finance-from-the-electoral-process\/","title":{"rendered":"We need to eliminate all private finance from the electoral process."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There Is Only One Issue In America<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/steven-van-zandt\/democracy-in-america_b_1139463.html\">http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/steven-van-zandt\/democracy-in-america_b_1139463.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A couple of great quotes in this article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe simple fact is we do not live in a democracy. Certainly not the kind our Founding Fathers intended. We live in a corporate dictatorship represented by, and beholden to, no single human being you can reason with or hold responsible for anything.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8230;the amazing Orwellian staple of every newscast, selling the public on the lie that the Dow has somehow become America&#8217;s scoreboard!<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re all hypnotized, rooting for them like they&#8217;re our home team at a football game, cheering for THEIR scoreboard mindlessly forgetting WE&#8217;RE THE AWAY TEAM!!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I feel the same thing: we must eliminate the money from politics in order to have any prayer of changing things so we can get a representative democracy.  Until the money is eliminated, fixing Gerrymandering is irrelevant, so is adding third parties, reforming the way votes are cast and counted, etc., etc., etc.<\/p>\n<p>As the author states, this should be the principle that unites the Tea Party with OWS, but somehow I doubt the oligarchy will stand by and allow something like this to reach critical mass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There Is Only One Issue In America http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/steven-van-zandt\/democracy-in-america_b_1139463.html A couple of great quotes in this article: The simple fact is we do not live in a democracy. Certainly not the kind our Founding Fathers intended. We live in a corporate dictatorship represented by, and beholden to, no single human being you can reason with or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/12\/15\/we-need-to-eliminate-all-private-finance-from-the-electoral-process\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;We need to eliminate all private finance from the electoral process.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-politics","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions\/316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}