{"id":3016,"date":"2015-10-19T21:07:25","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T21:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fenello.com\/blog\/?p=3016"},"modified":"2015-10-19T21:07:25","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T21:07:25","slug":"us-is-an-oligarchy-not-a-democracy-says-scientific-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/tranzitioning\/?p=3016","title":{"rendered":"US Is an Oligarchy Not a Democracy, says Scientific Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceItemEmbedly\" style=\"max-width:600px;\" data-ajax=\"{'url':'http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/views\/2014\/04\/14\/us-oligarchy-not-democracy-says-scientific-study','width':null,'words':null,'height':null,'embed':'&lt;div class=\\&quot;embedly\\&quot; style=\\&quot;\\&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=\\&quot;http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/sites\/default\/files\/views-article\/thumbs\/shutterstock_126271541-638x425.jpg\\&quot; class=\\&quot;thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\\&quot; \/&gt;&lt;a class=\\'embedly-title\\' target=\\'_blank\\' href=\\'http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/views\/2014\/04\/14\/us-oligarchy-not-democracy-says-scientific-study\\'&gt;US Is an Oligarchy Not a Democracy, says Scientific Study&lt;\/a&gt;A study, to appear in the Fall 2014 issue of the academic journal Perspectives on Politics, finds that the U.S. is no democracy, but instead an oligarchy, meaning profoundly corrupt, so that the answer to the study\\'s opening question, \\&quot;Who governs? Who really rules?\\&quot; in this country, is:&lt;div class=\\&quot;embedly-clear\\&quot;&gt;&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;span class=\\&quot;embedly-powered\\&quot; style=\\&quot;float:right;display:block\\&quot;&gt;&lt;a target=\\&quot;_blank\\&quot; href=\\&quot;http:\/\/embed.ly\/code?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.commondreams.org%2Fviews%2F2014%2F04%2F14%2Fus-oligarchy-not-democracy-says-scientific-study\\&quot; title=\\&quot;Powered by Embedly\\&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=\\&quot;http:\/\/static.embed.ly\/images\/logos\/embedly-powered-small-light.png\\&quot; alt=\\&quot;Embedly Powered\\&quot; \/&gt;&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/span&gt;&lt;div class=\\&quot;media-attribution\\&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;via &lt;\/span&gt;&lt;a href=\\&quot;http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\\&quot; class=\\&quot;media-attribution-link\\&quot; target=\\&quot;_blank\\&quot;&gt;Common Dreams&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/span&gt;&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;div class=\\&quot;embedly-clear\\&quot;&gt;&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;\/div&gt;'}\">\n<div class=\"embedly\" style=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/sites\/default\/files\/views-article\/thumbs\/shutterstock_126271541-638x425.jpg\" class=\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\" \/><a class='embedly-title' target='_blank' href='http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/views\/2014\/04\/14\/us-oligarchy-not-democracy-says-scientific-study'>US Is an Oligarchy Not a Democracy, says Scientific Study<\/a>A study, to appear in the Fall 2014 issue of the academic journal Perspectives on Politics, finds that the U.S. is no democracy, but instead an oligarchy, meaning profoundly corrupt, so that the answer to the study&#8217;s opening question, &#8220;Who governs? Who really rules?&#8221; in this country, is:<\/p>\n<div class=\"embedly-clear\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"embedly-powered\" style=\"float:right;display:block\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/embed.ly\/code?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.commondreams.org%2Fviews%2F2014%2F04%2F14%2Fus-oligarchy-not-democracy-says-scientific-study\" title=\"Powered by Embedly\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.embed.ly\/images\/logos\/embedly-powered-small-light.png\" alt=\"Embedly Powered\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"media-attribution\"><span>via <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\" class=\"media-attribution-link\" target=\"_blank\">Common Dreams<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"embedly-clear\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Is an Oligarchy Not a Democracy, says Scientific StudyA study, to appear in the Fall 2014 issue of the academic journal Perspectives on Politics, finds that the U.S. is no democracy, but instead an oligarchy, meaning profoundly corrupt, so &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/tranzitioning\/?p=3016\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tranzitioning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3017,"href":"http:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016\/revisions\/3017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}