{"id":278996,"date":"2016-11-14T01:12:11","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T00:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/e-pluribus-unum\/"},"modified":"2016-11-14T01:12:11","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T00:12:11","slug":"e-pluribus-unum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/e-pluribus-unum\/","title":{"rendered":"E pluribus unum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have heard and read for what could be mistaken for an eternity that the United States of America (may the god&#8211; no sane person would worship&#8211; bless her) is exceptional and the &#8220;greatest nation on Earth&#8221; (something even the Soviet Union could never bring itself to proclaim).<\/p>\n<p>Since the unofficial victory of Donald Trump in the general election for the office of President of that &#8220;exceptional&#8221; country, the &#8220;losing&#8221; side has enhanced its exceptionally curious behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>Before we attempt to think any further, let&#8217;s return to another curious election to that same office. Sixteen years ago the Democratic Vice President of the United States was declared the loser in a presidential election rife with fraud&#8211; especially in Cuban-American Miami. Bill Clinton&#8217;s supposed heir-apparent was dismissed by the Supreme Court (which has no constitutional authority in the elections whatsoever) and there was not a whimper from either the penile or vaginal Clinton. Now we find Hillary&#8217;s army rallying the retilin Republic to petition against the very anti-majoritarian institution the slave-holding Founding Fathers created to prevent the ordinary people from winning elections. That is a constitutional curiosity worthy of note.<\/p>\n<p>There are two fundamental problems with the electoral (in terms of the US Constitution&#8217;s oligarchic principles) victory for Trump. One ought to be obvious but since the Outer Party and the media that controls it ideologically (<em>NYT, Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0and its overseas&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2016\/11\/e-pluribus-unum\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have heard and read for what could be mistaken for an eternity that the United States of America (may the god&#8211; no sane person would worship&#8211; bless her) is exceptional and the &#8220;greatest nation on Earth&#8221; (something even the Soviet Union could never bring itself to proclaim). Since the unofficial victory of Donald Trump [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-278996","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\/278996","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\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}