{"id":50655,"date":"2013-07-16T08:19:40","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T07:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/has-the-1-percent-committed-treason\/50655\/"},"modified":"2013-07-16T08:19:40","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T07:19:40","slug":"has-the-1-percent-committed-treason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/has-the-1-percent-committed-treason\/","title":{"rendered":"Has the 1 Percent Committed Treason?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span class=\"field field-name-field-date field-type-date field-label-hidden\"><span class=\"field-items\"><span class=\"field-item even\"><span class=\"date-display-single\">July 15, 2013<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<\/em> \u00a0|  <\/p>\n<div class=\"article_insert_container\">\n<div id=\"insert_ilikethis\">\n<div id=\"block-altsubscription-subscribe-node-inline\" class=\"block block-altsubscription first odd count-1\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<div id=\"insert_ilikethis\">\n<p>Like this article?<\/p>\n<p>Join our email list:<\/p>\n<h3>Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email.<\/h3>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- \/.block -->\n\t      <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>    <!-- BODY --><\/p>\n<p>Permit me an impertinent question (or three). <\/p>\n<p>Suppose a small group of extremely wealthy people sought to systematically destroy the U.S. government by (1) finding and bankrolling new candidates pledged to shrinking and dismembering it; (2) intimidating or bribing many current senators and representatives to block all proposed legislation, prevent the appointment of presidential nominees, eliminate funds to implement and enforce laws, and threaten to default on the nation\u2019s debt; (3) taking over state governments in order to redistrict, gerrymander, require voter IDs, purge voter rolls, and otherwise suppress the votes of the majority in federal elections; (4) running a vast PR campaign designed to convince the American public of certain big lies, such as climate change is a hoax, and (5) buying up the media so the public cannot know the truth. <\/p>\n<p>Would you call this treason? <\/p>\n<p>If not, what would you call it? <\/p>\n<p>And what would you do about it? <\/p>\n<div class=\"bio-new body_economy\">\n<p> <!--smart_paging_filter--><!--smart_paging_autop_filter-->Robert Reich is the nation&#8217;s 22nd Secretary of Labor and a professor at the University of California at Berkeley. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Republished with permission from: <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/~\/43585446\/0\/alternet~Has-the-Percent-Committed-Treason\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Has the 1 Percent Committed Treason?\">AlterNet<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 15, 2013 \u00a0| Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. Permit me an impertinent question (or three). Suppose a small group of extremely wealthy people sought to systematically destroy the U.S. government by (1) finding and bankrolling new candidates pledged to shrinking and dismembering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-50655","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50655","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}