{"id":377227,"date":"2018-09-14T05:26:43","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T04:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/our-broken-system-has-no-moderate-devotees\/"},"modified":"2018-09-14T05:26:43","modified_gmt":"2018-09-14T04:26:43","slug":"our-broken-system-has-no-moderate-devotees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/our-broken-system-has-no-moderate-devotees\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Broken System has no \u201cModerate\u201d Devotees"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Western politics is tearing itself apart, polarising into two camps \u2013 or at least, it is in the official narrative we are being fed by our corporate media. The warring camps are presented as \u201cmoderate centrists\u201d, on one side, and the \u201cextreme right\u201d, on the other. The question is framed as a choice about where one stands in relation to this fundamental political divide. But what if none of this is true? What if this isn\u2019t a feud between two opposed ideological camps but rather two differing \u2013 and irrational \u2013 reactions to the breakdown of late-stage capitalism as an economic model, a system that can no longer offer plausible solutions to the problems of our age?<\/p>\n<p>Neighbouring news headlines this week offered a neat illustration of the media\u2019s framing of the current situation. Representing the \u201cmoderates\u201d, German chancellor Angela Merkel made a \u201cpassionate address\u201d in which she denounced the outbreak of far-right protests in east Germany and reports of the \u201chunting down\u201d of \u201cforeigners\u201d \u2013 asylum seekers and immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>She <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/sep\/12\/angela-merkel-condemns-germany-far-right-outbreak-passionate-address\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">observed<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>There is no excuse or explanation for rabble-rousing, in some cases the use of violence, Nazi slogans, hostility towards people who look different, to the owner of a Jewish restaurant, attacking police.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ostensibly pitted against Merkel is Viktor Orban, Hungary\u2019s \u201cextreme right\u201d prime minister. Hungary risks being stripped of its voting rights in the European Union because of Orban\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/09\/our-broken-system-has-no-moderate-devotees\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Western politics is tearing itself apart, polarising into two camps \u2013 or at least, it is in the official narrative we are being fed by our corporate media. The warring camps are presented as \u201cmoderate centrists\u201d, on one side, and the \u201cextreme right\u201d, on the other. The question is framed as a choice about where [&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-377227","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\/377227","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=377227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}