{"id":9348,"date":"2020-03-31T08:46:42","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T06:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=9348"},"modified":"2020-03-31T09:50:54","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T07:50:54","slug":"democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=9348","title":{"rendered":"Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/morningstaronline.co.uk\/article\/oo\/humanity-will-face-worse-crises-coronavirus-if-we-let-sociopathic-buffoons-control\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chomsky<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI mean this is so shocking that you don\u2019t know how to describe it. Germany can\u2019t help Greece: but Cuba can help European countries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust as when you see thousands of people dying in the Mediterranean, fleeing from countries Europe has devastated for centuries and being sent to their deaths in the Mediterranean, you don\u2019t know what words to use.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe civilisational crisis in the West at this point is devastating to think about. And it does bring up childhood memories of listening to Hitler raving on the radio to raucous crowds adoring him at the Nuremberg rallies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne begins to wonder if the species is even viable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Our only hope for overcoming these crises is to expand democracy, Chomsky said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we\u2019re leaving our fate to sociopathic buffoons, we\u2019re finished.<\/p>\n<p style=\"background-color: aliceblue;\">\u201cAn informed, engaged, involved public taking control of their fate \u2014 if that doesn\u2019t happen, we\u2019re doomed.&#8220;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chomsky: \u201cI mean this is so shocking that you don\u2019t know how to describe it. Germany can\u2019t help Greece: but Cuba can help European countries. \u201cJust as when you see thousands of people dying in the Mediterranean, fleeing from countries &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=9348\">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-9348","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\/9348","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=9348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}