{"id":237,"date":"2016-01-05T08:51:26","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T16:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.wehle.org\/?p=237"},"modified":"2016-01-05T08:55:16","modified_gmt":"2016-01-05T16:55:16","slug":"citizens-or-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=237","title":{"rendered":"Citizens or Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In a genuinely democractic system, as opposed to a pseudodemocratic one in which a &#8222;representative sample&#8220; of the population is asked whether it &#8222;approves&#8220; or &#8222;disapproves,&#8220; citizens would be viewed as\u00a0<em>agents<\/em> actively involved in the exercise of power and in contributing to the direction of policy. Instead citizens are more like &#8222;patients&#8220; who, in the dictionary definition, are &#8222;bearing or enduring (evil of any kind) with composure; long suffering or forbearing.&#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 60px;\">\u2014Sheldon Wolin, <i>Democracy Incorporated<\/i>, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008), 60.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a genuinely democractic system, as opposed to a pseudodemocratic one in which a &#8222;representative sample&#8220; of the population is asked whether it &#8222;approves&#8220; or &#8222;disapproves,&#8220; citizens would be viewed as\u00a0agents actively involved in the exercise of power and in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=237\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}