{"id":266120,"date":"2016-09-07T15:46:33","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T15:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/colin-kaepernick-and-the-death-of-american-democracy\/"},"modified":"2016-09-07T15:46:33","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T15:46:33","slug":"colin-kaepernick-and-the-death-of-american-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/colin-kaepernick-and-the-death-of-american-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Colin Kaepernick and the Death of American Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mike Morbeck \u2013 CC BY-SA 4.0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The frog of American democracy is no longer boiling, it\u2019s dead. \u00a0\u00a0How do I know? \u00a0By observing the public response to the actions undertaken during the last week by San Francisco 49ers quarterback, Colin Kaepernick.<\/p>\n

That a certain sector of our country gets upset at the slightest criticism of policemen and\/or the military is nothing new. \u00a0Uniform worship has a long history in this country, especially in the years since World War II when our government decided to dispense with any pretense of preferring democratic republicanism to empire, and as an integral part of that transformation, launched a consensus-management program designed to normalize and exalt the virtues of ceding individual prerogative to the always \u201cresponsible\u201d and \u201cbenevolent\u201d men in blue and green.<\/p>\n

But even during the darkest moments of this post-war period, there was almost always been a sizable group of people, on both the left and the right, who resisted the hierarchical logic of this uniform-worship because they understood that it is, and always will be, absolutely incompatible with both the day-to-day dignity of the citizenry and that same citizenry\u2019s pursuit of real democracy.<\/p>\n

But this no longer seems to be the case. Sure, there have been numerous people who have voiced support for Kaepernick\u2019s right to do what he has done and right to say what he has said.<\/p>\n

But almost every one the defenses I have heard or read in the mainstream media has been…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Mike Morbeck \u2013 CC BY-SA 4.0 The frog of American democracy is no longer boiling, it\u2019s dead. \u00a0\u00a0How do I know? \u00a0By observing the public response to the actions undertaken during the last week by San Francisco 49ers quarterback, Colin Kaepernick. That a certain sector of our country gets upset at the slightest criticism of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-266120","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}