{"id":377041,"date":"2018-09-12T19:24:19","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T18:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=377041"},"modified":"2018-09-13T00:34:08","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T23:34:08","slug":"why-america-is-a-dictatorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/why-america-is-a-dictatorship\/","title":{"rendered":"Why America Is a Dictatorship"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

America is a country in which dollars count far more than voters do, and that\u2019s what all of the data shows<\/a><\/span>. And that\u2019s a dictatorship by the richest.<\/span><\/p>\n

This kind<\/a><\/span> of country, this kind<\/span><\/a> of country, and this kind of country<\/span><\/a>, get this kind of President<\/span><\/a>. And the rulers blame it on the public, instead of on the billionaires, the actual rulers themselves (the behind-the-scenes<\/i> rulers). These rulers selected the politicians and offered those to the public to select from in \u2018elections\u2019 \u2014 and they then blame the public for the choices that the public make, from amongst these bad final options that the aristocracy has provided to them.<\/span><\/p>\n

Billionaires despise the public, and have no intention of allowing the public to have better leaders than this<\/span><\/a> \u2014 but they allow the public to have only leaders who serve their bosses, namely, those billionaires themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n

Any teacher who says otherwise is simply contradicting the data. The data are clear on this: America is a dictatorship by the few richest under 1%, over the many more than 99%, who are commonly called \u201cthe public.\u201d It\u2019s an aristocracy, and it\u2019s run like one. The public\u2019s loyalty to this dictatorship \u2014 to this aristocracy or rule-by-the-richest \u2014 is retained by the deceit of calling the public \u201ccitizens,\u201d instead of \u201csubjects\u201d (like in the bad \u2018good old days\u2019), but the reality now is that they\u2019re subjects, not citizens. <\/span><\/p>\n

Citizens exist only in an authentic democracy. Subjects are merely the people against whom the aristocracy\u2019s laws are imposed. Subjects are not citizens. The aristocracy\u2019s media spin them as being \u201ccitizens\u201d in a \u201cdemocracy.\u201d Almost all of the public are fooled by that lie.<\/span><\/p>\n

Like former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has said<\/span><\/a> of today\u2019s America (with such honesty so that none of the major \u2018news\u2019 media reported it):<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNow it’s just an oligarchy with unlimited political bribery being the essence of getting the nominations for president or being elected president. And the same thing applies to governors, and U.S. Senators and congress members. So, now we’ve just seen a subversion of our political system as a payoff to major contributors, who want and expect, and sometimes get, favors for themselves after the election is over. … At the present time the incumbents, Democrats and Republicans, look upon this unlimited money as a great benefit to themselves. Somebody that is already in Congress has a great deal more to sell.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

When a foreign government is a dictatorship by the aristocracy, it\u2019s called an \u201coligarchy,\u201d but when one\u2019s own nation is, the term that\u2019s supposed to be used is instead an \u201caristocracy\u201d; and so Carter was here referring to his own country in the way that only foreign<\/i> aristocratic dictatorships are supposed to be referred-to. That terminological usage might have added to the shock-value, but none of the major (i.e., none of the aristocratically controlled) media reported his statement, in any case.<\/span><\/p>\n

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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":"

Eric Zuesse America is a country in which dollars count far more than voters do, and that\u2019s what all of the data shows. And that\u2019s a dictatorship by the richest. This kind of country, this kind of country, and this kind of country, get this kind of President. And the rulers blame it on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1254,"featured_media":377045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461,519],"tags":[96,541,804,755,49,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-377041","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-editorials","8":"category-newswire","9":"tag-cover-up","10":"tag-media","11":"tag-politics-2","12":"tag-usa","13":"tag-usa-news","14":"tag-white-house"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377041","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\/1254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377041"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":377082,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377041\/revisions\/377082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}