{"id":25062,"date":"2023-02-05T11:47:33","date_gmt":"2023-02-05T19:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=25062"},"modified":"2023-02-05T11:47:34","modified_gmt":"2023-02-05T19:47:34","slug":"how-animals-vote-hint-its-not-by-consensus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/02\/05\/how-animals-vote-hint-its-not-by-consensus\/","title":{"rendered":"HOW ANIMALS VOTE (HINT: IT\u2019S NOT BY CONSENSUS)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Thom Hartmann presents The Hidden History of American Oligarchy in conversation with David Korten\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8Ac1P89JMNM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Powell\u2019s Books \u2022 Feb 3, 2021 Thom Hartmann, the most popular progressive radio host in America, looks at the history of the battle against oligarchy in America \u2014 and how we can win the latest round. The United States was born in a struggle against the oligarchs of the British aristocracy, and ever since then the history of America has been one of dynamic tension between democracy and oligarchy. And much like the shock of the 1929 crash that woke America up to glaring inequality and the ongoing theft of democracy by that generation\u2019s oligarchs, the coronavirus pandemic of 2020 has laid bare how extensively oligarchs have looted our nation\u2019s economic system, gutted governmental institutions, and stolen the wealth of the former middle class. In The Hidden History of American Oligarchy: Reclaiming Our Democracy From the Ruling Class (Berrett-Koehler), Hartmann traces the history of this struggle against oligarchy from America\u2019s founding to the United States\u2019 war with the feudal Confederacy to President Franklin Roosevelt\u2019s struggle against \u201ceconomic royalists,\u201d who wanted to block the New Deal. In each of those cases, the oligarchs lost the battle. But with increasing right-wing control of the media, unlimited campaign contributions, and a conservative takeover of the judicial system, we\u2019re at a crisis point. Hartmann lays out practical measures we can take to break up media monopolies, limit the influence of money in politics, reclaim the wealth stolen over decades by the oligarchy, and build a movement that will return control of America to We the People. Hartmann was joined in conversation by David Korten, cofounder of YES! Magazine and author of Change the Story, Change the Future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Powell\u2019s Books \u2022 Feb 3, 2021 Thom Hartmann, the most popular progressive radio host in America, looks at the history of the battle against oligarchy in America \u2014 and how we can win the latest round. The United States was born in a struggle against the oligarchs of the British&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/02\/05\/how-animals-vote-hint-its-not-by-consensus\/\"> Continue reading <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[40,39,41,38],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25062"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25064,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25062\/revisions\/25064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}