{"id":26704,"date":"2025-12-30T08:59:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T07:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=26704"},"modified":"2025-12-30T09:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T08:38:10","slug":"ostensible-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=26704","title":{"rendered":"ostensible democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/agendapublica.es\/noticia\/20511\/branko-milanovic-when-wealth-become-highly-concentrated-system-becomes-hypocritical\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Branko Milanovi\u0107 in Agenda P\u00fablica<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When income and wealth become highly concentrated, political power tends to move toward those who have money, and the system becomes hypocritical: it is an ostensible democracy but such that the rich rule.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I really like this phrase &#8222;ostensible democracy&#8220;. Americans and Germans often claim\/assume they live in a democracy but the speaker&#8217;s affect is tentative, wishful. People aspire to live in a democracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Branko Milanovi\u0107 in Agenda P\u00fablica: When income and wealth become highly concentrated, political power tends to move toward those who have money, and the system becomes hypocritical: it is an ostensible democracy but such that the rich rule. I really &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=26704\">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-26704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}