{"id":274305,"date":"2016-10-20T17:57:17","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T17:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-presidential-elections-dont-resemble-democracy-scholar\/"},"modified":"2016-10-20T19:14:02","modified_gmt":"2016-10-20T19:14:02","slug":"us-presidential-elections-dont-resemble-democracy-scholar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/politics\/us-presidential-elections-dont-resemble-democracy-scholar\/","title":{"rendered":"US presidential elections don\u2019t resemble democracy: Scholar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The presidential election system in the United States has never resembled a true democracy and the nation requires a political revolution to be able o function as a republic, according to an American scholar.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cUS presidential elections have absolutely nothing to do with anything that resemble democracy,\u201d said Kevin Barrett, an author and political commentator based in Madison, Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmericans need to wake up and see that their nation has become a criminal empire rather than a republic as was setup the founding fathers,\u201d Barrett told Press TV on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Republican and Democratic nominees, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, facef off in the last one-on-one debate <span style=\"color:black\">on Wednesday <\/span>in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has challenged the legitimacy of American democracy, declaring that he might not accept the results of the November 8 presidential election if there is evidence it was rigged.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will look at it at the time. I&#8217;m&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/10\/20\/489946\/US-presidential-electionse-Trump-Clinton-Kevin-Barrett\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The presidential election system in the United States has never resembled a true democracy and the nation requires a political revolution to be able o function as a republic, according to an American scholar.\u00a0 \u201cUS presidential elections have absolutely nothing to do with anything that resemble democracy,\u201d said Kevin Barrett, an author and political commentator [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519,17,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-274305","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire","7":"category-politics","8":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274305","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=274305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}