{"id":925,"date":"2024-02-21T09:29:29","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T09:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/02\/21\/is-trump-a-threat-to-democracy-2\/"},"modified":"2024-02-21T09:29:29","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T09:29:29","slug":"is-trump-a-threat-to-democracy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/02\/21\/is-trump-a-threat-to-democracy-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Trump a Threat to Democracy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">He most certainly is if &#39;democracy,&#39; as per the woke Orwellian switcheroo &#8212; to give it a name &#8212; refers to <em>plutocracy<\/em>, rule by the wealthy. The plutocratic elites of the present time, unlike those of yesteryear,&#0160; are woke open-borders globalists with no commitment to their countries of origin. John Kerry and Hillary Clinton are good examples. You will recall Hillary&#39;s endless mouthing of &#39;our democracy,&#39; not that it has stopped. The superannuated and hyper-mendacious cow has been put out to pasture, thanks to DJT, but the attention-obsessed greed head won&#39;t stay there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">That the USA is a plutocracy is convincingly argued by Peter Turchin in <em>End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration<\/em> (Penguin, 2023). When Turchin, no conservative, tells us that the USA is a plutocracy, he means that &quot;. . . at the top of the power pyramid in America is the corporate community: the owners and managers of large income-producing assets . . . .&quot; (124-5) The economic elites rule America indirectly by dominating the political class by lobbying and the like. (125) &quot;The two power networks, economic and administrative, are jointed at the hip&quot; with the economic network in the dominant position. (125) &quot;The corporate community also controls the ideological basis of power through the ownership&#0160; of mass media corporations . . . .&quot; (125)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><em>In nuce<\/em>: Hillary is <em>homo mendax<\/em>, and not just her: we do not have a democracy, but a plutocracy, and Trump, billionaire that he is, is a threat to it in his role as populist.&#0160;&#0160;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He most certainly is if &#39;democracy,&#39; as per the woke Orwellian switcheroo &#8212; to give it a name &#8212; refers to plutocracy, rule by the wealthy. The plutocratic elites of the present time, unlike those of yesteryear,&#0160; are woke open-borders globalists with no commitment to their countries of origin. John Kerry and Hillary Clinton are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/02\/21\/is-trump-a-threat-to-democracy-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is Trump a Threat to Democracy?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117,43,29,48,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-dissimulation","category-political-language","category-political-ponerology","category-social-and-political-philosophy","category-wokery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925","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=925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}