{"id":287677,"date":"2016-12-29T11:32:56","date_gmt":"2016-12-29T10:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/phantom-democracy-in-the-age-of-the-internet\/"},"modified":"2016-12-29T11:32:56","modified_gmt":"2016-12-29T10:32:56","slug":"phantom-democracy-in-the-age-of-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/phantom-democracy-in-the-age-of-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"Phantom Democracy in the Age of the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>After the Electoral College vote, the Trump presidency is now official. As denial and blame games continue, it becomes clear this was not a foreign government coup d\u2019\u00e9tat. The truth is that democracy in America has been rotten to the core for decades. It is meddled with by corporate lobbyists, Big Pharma, Big Oil and Wall Street \u2013those who are addicted to money and power.<\/p>\n<p>American democracy is hollowed out, veiled with a loud media echo chamber, bringing feigned solidity to its emptiness. Out of this vacuum emerges a madness for power. U.S. politics is a contest of those who are driven by insatiable hunger \u2013 the most callous, cunning and manipulative people in society.<\/p>\n<p>In this system, only people who lack empathy and advance self-serving agendas without concerns for others can rise to the top. The results of this year\u2019s presidential election may mean that this person who many saw as \u2018unfit to be president\u2019 was better suited to play this dirty game than his opponent, Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n<p><b>Ascent of Trump <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump, a perceived outsider, seemed to appear out of nowhere. The former producer of the American game show <i>The Apprentice<\/i> sniffed the vulnerability of disfranchised Americans who are continually betrayed by the establishment. He then quickly moved in for the kill, turning the electoral arena into a new Reality TV show.<\/p>\n<p>With social media as a hunting ground, this new Republican contender made direct connection with his audience, pouring out charm&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2016\/12\/phantom-democracy-in-the-age-of-the-internet\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the Electoral College vote, the Trump presidency is now official. As denial and blame games continue, it becomes clear this was not a foreign government coup d\u2019\u00e9tat. The truth is that democracy in America has been rotten to the core for decades. It is meddled with by corporate lobbyists, Big Pharma, Big Oil and [&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-287677","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\/287677","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=287677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}