{"id":7340,"date":"2019-10-22T06:34:41","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T04:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=7340"},"modified":"2019-10-22T06:34:41","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T04:34:41","slug":"ralph-naders-world-on-its-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=7340","title":{"rendered":"Ralph Nader&#8217;s world on its head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2019\/10\/21\/where-are-the-influentials-who-find-trump-despicable\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ralph Nader<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The\u00a0British political philosopher, John Stuart Mill, was a man of many\u00a0pithy phrases. Possibly his\u00a0most widely quoted assertion is that \u201cBad\u00a0men need nothing more to compass their ends, than\u00a0that good men\u00a0should look on and do nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This\u00a0quote fits the Trump age perfectly. Where are you, Barack Obama?\u2026Instead of speaking out, he is making movies,\u00a0maybe writing\u00a0another book, and otherwise really enjoying himself.<\/p>\n<p>Where\u00a0are you Condoleezza Rice?\u2026Condoleezza is\u00a0collecting honors and large speech fees and teaching at Stanford\u00a0University\u00a0(keep in mind that Rice was on the inside during the criminal\u00a0Bush\/Cheney war in Iraq,\u00a0which she supported and defended).<\/p>\n<p>Where\u00a0are you General Colin Powell?\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The list could go on and on. The former high officials or elected politicians, now retired, who do want to speak up, complain that they can\u2019t get any media attention.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That reaching for American national political figure examples of &#8222;good men&#8220; Nader should resort to listing these three individuals speaks volumes about the system which brought the current administration to power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ralph Nader: The\u00a0British political philosopher, John Stuart Mill, was a man of many\u00a0pithy phrases. Possibly his\u00a0most widely quoted assertion is that \u201cBad\u00a0men need nothing more to compass their ends, than\u00a0that good men\u00a0should look on and do nothing.\u201d This\u00a0quote fits the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=7340\">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-7340","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\/7340","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=7340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}