{"id":375150,"date":"2018-08-28T03:09:24","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T02:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=375150"},"modified":"2018-08-28T03:13:23","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T02:13:23","slug":"how-corrupt-americas-dictators-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/how-corrupt-americas-dictators-are\/","title":{"rendered":"How Corrupt America’s Dictators Are"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet another poll confirms that America\u2019s dictatorial clique take advantage of the ignorance and gullibility of the average person so that the clique’s politicians can win votes no matter how much these politicians block passage and enforcement of any proposed laws that the dictators don\u2019t want to pass or to be enforced. <\/span><\/p>\n

In this latest case, the owners of the insurance companies refuse to allow single-payer (i.e., tax-financed, as opposed to for-profit) health insurance, though three-quarters of the American people, in the latest poll, want it, and though past polls (which likewise were hidden from the public) also overwhelmingly indicate that the public want it.<\/span><\/p>\n

For decades now, the owners have blocked it, though the public have overwhelmingly wanted it.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is an excellent example of the consistent finding in the empirical political-science literature, that the U.S. is a dictatorship by the richest against the public, and not actually a democracy at all<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

This particular poll-finding was a poll taken by Ipsos for the Reuters \u2019news\u2019-agency and was made public by Reuters on August 23rd; and what Ipsos found, regarding this matter, was effectively kept secret by the sponsoring \u2019news\u2019-organization (Reuters), by their burying it within a bad article that Reuters issued under an almost unrelated headline, “Inside the progressive movement roiling the Democratic Party\u201d<\/span><\/a>, in which report, this finding didn\u2019t even pertain to \u201cthe progressive movement roiling the Democratic Party\u201d (the article’s alleged topic) but instead, pertained to the entire U.S. electorate, and was merely found to be more pronounced among Democrats than it was among Republicans \u2014 as it long has been, and so that\u2019s not even news at all. <\/span><\/p>\n

So, this important finding was buried by Reuters, under an inappropriate heading, and it was buried there, in that lengthy and unrelated story, despite the finding itself being probably of broader general interest to the American people than was that drab headline, about the Democratic Party\u2019s particular segment of the U.S. electorate.<\/span><\/p>\n

This important poll-finding was buried 70% down in that lengthy trashy Reuters article, in which it was being introduced. The finding was that Americans of all parties, and of no party, who are asked \u201cWould you support or oppose the following?\u201d regarding \u201ca policy of Medicare for all?\u201d answer overwhelmingly yes.<\/span><\/p>\n

The only news-site which published the finding itself, on the same day, August 23rd, was this \u2014 hardly a mainstream (i.e., billionaire-backed) news-site:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/pnhp.org\/blog\/2018\/08\/23\/reutersipsos-poll-70-percent-support-medicare-for-all\/<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Reuters\/Ipsos poll: 70 percent support Medicare for All<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Posted by Don McCanne MD on Thursday, Aug 23, 2018<\/span><\/p>\n

This entry is from Dr. McCanne’s Quote of the Day, a daily health policy update on the single-payer health care reform movement. The QotD is archived on PNHP’s website.<\/span><\/p>\n

Reuters\/Ipsos, June and July 2018<\/span><\/p>\n

Would you support or oppose the following?<\/span><\/p>\n

A policy of Medicare for All? (When it comes to the U.S. healthcare system)<\/span><\/p>\n

Democrat<\/span><\/p>\n

84.5% \u2013 Support<\/span><\/p>\n

10.7% \u2013 Oppose<\/span><\/p>\n

4.8% \u2013 Don\u2019t know<\/span><\/p>\n

Republican<\/span><\/p>\n

51.9% \u2013 Support<\/span><\/p>\n

37.4% \u2013 Oppose<\/span><\/p>\n

10.7% \u2013 Don\u2019t know<\/span><\/p>\n

Total<\/span><\/p>\n

70.1% \u2013 Support<\/span><\/p>\n

20.6% \u2013 Oppose<\/span><\/p>\n

9.3% \u2013 Don\u2019t know<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/investigates\/special-report\/usa-election-progressives\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

In this new Reuters\/Ipsos poll of 2,989 American adults, 70 percent support Medicare for all, and even a majority of Republicans \u2013 52 percent \u2013 do so as well.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n

As of two days after that \u2018news\u2019 release from Reuters, August 25th<\/span><\/a>, no mainstream \u2018news\u2019 medium had published this information. Two days later, on August 27th<\/span><\/a>, still no mainstream \u2018news\u2019 medium had reported it. To the vast majority of Americans, it\u2019s still a secret, no news at all. And now it\u2019s too late even to be news, it\u2019s only<\/i> history \u2014 but still hidden history. The poll showed that 77% of Americans who had an opinion one way or the other about socialization of the health-insurance operation in the U.S. favored it; only 23% of those people didn\u2019t want that change to be made. And all mainstream \u2018news\u2019 media in this country ignored that fact which had been buried in a Reuters \u2018news\u2019 story.<\/span><\/p>\n

So: any Americans who (like the vast majority of people are) is so authoritarian as to be favorably influenced toward a belief when that belief is reported to be shared by a majority of the population, won\u2019t likely know that single-payer health insurance (otherwise known as \u201csocialized health insurance\u201d) is favored by over 3\/4ths of the American public (and was supported by around 2\/3rds for decades before that), and yet has consistently been blocked by the politicians whom they\u2019ve been offered on their electoral ballots for federal offices, in the general election (the final election). It\u2019s been blocked by the supposed \u2018democratically selected representatives of the American people\u2019. The American people are (in the general election) actually being offered only candidates for national offices whom the billionaires have offered to them. The only political options that are finally offered to the American public are ones whom some segment of America\u2019s billionaires back. It\u2019ll be either the conservative billionaires, or the liberal billionaires, who will be represented by any given federal office-holder, in the U.S.A. <\/span><\/p>\n

This is a typical example of the consistent finding in the empirical political-science literature, that the U.S. is a dictatorship by the richest against the public, and not actually a democracy at all<\/span><\/a>. And it also displays, quite strikingly, the corruption of America\u2019s \u2018news\u2019 media (controlled by those billionaires), to fit that corrupt government \u2014 really, that they belong to the same few people, billionaires (plus the few most politically active of centi-millionaires), who control the U.S. Government itself.<\/span><\/p>\n

So: any person who refers to America as a \u201cdemocracy\u201d should be asked what is meant by that term, because America is certainly not a democracy \u2014 it\u2019s actually a dictatorship, by the rich.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n

Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of\u00a0 They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/span><\/a>,<\/i> and of<\/span> \u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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