{"id":47229,"date":"2011-06-29T17:17:38","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T17:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/2011\/06\/29\/i-mean-whats-the-elections-you-know-two-guys\/"},"modified":"2011-06-29T17:17:38","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T17:17:38","slug":"i-mean-whats-the-elections-you-know-two-guys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/2011\/06\/29\/i-mean-whats-the-elections-you-know-two-guys\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I mean, what\u2019s the elections? You know, two guys, same background, wealth, political influence, went to the same elite university- they both can run because they\u2019re financed by the same corporate institutions. At the Democratic Convention, Barack Obama said, \u2018only in this country, only in America, could someone like me appear here.\u2019 Well, in some other countries, people much poorer than him would not only talk at the convention &#8211; they\u2019d be elected president. Take Lula. The president of Brazil is a guy with a peasant background, a union organizer, never went to school, he\u2019s the president of the second-biggest country in the hemisphere. Only in America? I mean, there they actually have elections where you can choose somebody from your own ranks. With different policies. That\u2019s inconceivable in the United States.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>Noam Chomsky (via <a href=\"http:\/\/revleft.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">revleft<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mean, what\u2019s the elections? You know, two guys, same background, wealth, political influence, went to the same elite university- they both can run because they\u2019re financed by the same corporate institutions. At the Democratic Convention, Barack Obama said, \u2018only in this country, only in America, could someone like me appear here.\u2019 Well, in some &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/2011\/06\/29\/i-mean-whats-the-elections-you-know-two-guys\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}