{"id":1308,"date":"2023-08-04T15:54:36","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T15:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/08\/04\/democracy-with-state-sponsored-election-interference\/"},"modified":"2023-08-04T15:54:36","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T15:54:36","slug":"democracy-with-state-sponsored-election-interference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/08\/04\/democracy-with-state-sponsored-election-interference\/","title":{"rendered":"Democracy with State-Sponsored Election Interference?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">I should think they are incompatible. Might a bit of Orwellian re-definition help?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Maybe it is like this. Just as the border is secure as DHS-head Alejandro Mayorkas defines &#39;secure,&#39; state-sponsored election interference is compatible with democracy as the regime and its media shills define &#39;democracy.&#39;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Our political enemies from the Big Guy on down are not just brazen and repeated liars, they are something worse: subverters of language.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">I hand off to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/newsroom\/dershowitz-a-trump-indictment-would-be-blatant-election-interference\/\">Alan Dershowitz<\/a>, the best legal mind in the country, and&#0160; a Democrat.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I should think they are incompatible. Might a bit of Orwellian re-definition help? Maybe it is like this. Just as the border is secure as DHS-head Alejandro Mayorkas defines &#39;secure,&#39; state-sponsored election interference is compatible with democracy as the regime and its media shills define &#39;democracy.&#39; Our political enemies from the Big Guy on down &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/08\/04\/democracy-with-state-sponsored-election-interference\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Democracy with State-Sponsored Election Interference?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-political-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}