{"id":4784,"date":"2019-03-28T07:22:29","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T06:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=4784"},"modified":"2019-03-28T07:22:29","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T06:22:29","slug":"future-dangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=4784","title":{"rendered":"Future dangers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4785\" src=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/sanders-worried-about-drift-toward-oligarchy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1157\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/sanders-worried-about-drift-toward-oligarchy.jpg 1157w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/sanders-worried-about-drift-toward-oligarchy-300x64.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/sanders-worried-about-drift-toward-oligarchy-768x163.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/sanders-worried-about-drift-toward-oligarchy-940x198.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1157px) 100vw, 1157px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I am continually interested in the theory behind the wording used in statements like this. Danger is always,\u00a0<em>always\u00a0<\/em>in the future: thankfully we are not living in an oligarchy now, but if we continue on this course.\u2026 I am confident the speakers have well-reasoned theory behind the refusal to describe current political relations in the US as intolerable, but what are listeners thinking? And why &#8222;drift&#8220;? Why the aversion to seeing current <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wealth_inequality_in_the_United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">economic<\/a> and political relations as the result of decades of very intentional effort?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am continually interested in the theory behind the wording used in statements like this. Danger is always,\u00a0always\u00a0in the future: thankfully we are not living in an oligarchy now, but if we continue on this course.\u2026 I am confident the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=4784\">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-4784","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\/4784","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=4784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}