{"id":980,"date":"2005-07-29T06:03:03","date_gmt":"2005-07-29T10:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=980"},"modified":"2005-07-29T06:03:03","modified_gmt":"2005-07-29T10:03:03","slug":"demockery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=980","title":{"rendered":"Demockery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailytidings.com\/2005\/0711\/071105letters.shtml\">Democracy Deficit Disorder<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>American citizens at every level of government suffer from Democracy Deficit Disorder (DDD), which results in the pathology called ?demockery.? The disorder is so great that as many as one-half of eligible voters typically stay home at election time. On the national level one result is that, as The <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> put it, we have ?24 percent presidents,? elected by that percent of eligible voters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;War means never having to say you&#8217;re a tired, clich?-ridden Hollywood hack.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Justin Raimondo <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/justin\/?articleid=6798\">reviews<\/a> Stephen Bochco&#8217;s shameless war farce, Over There, written exclusively for the percent who remain pro war.<\/p>\n<p>Bochco leaves no stereotype unscripted, including the most common about women, who were put on this earth to be barefoot and pregnant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democracy Deficit Disorder American citizens at every level of government suffer from Democracy Deficit Disorder (DDD), which results in the pathology called ?demockery.? The disorder is so great that as many as one-half of eligible voters typically stay home at &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=980\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-fO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}