{"id":356546,"date":"2010-02-22T01:19:40","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T06:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=22937"},"modified":"2010-02-22T01:19:40","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T06:19:40","slug":"justice-for-sale-what-can-%e2%80%98the-people%e2%80%99-bid-to-have-democracy-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/356546","title":{"rendered":"Justice for Sale: What Can \u2018The People\u2019 Bid to Have Democracy in America?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-22939\" style=\"margin-left: 20px;margin-bottom: 10px\" src=\"http:\/\/disinfo.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/JusticeForSale.jpg\" alt=\"Justice For Sale\" width=\"290\" height=\"131\" \/>Bill Moyers and Michael Winship writes on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/bill-moyers\/what-are-we-bid-for-ameri_b_469335.html\">Huffington Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>That famous definition of a cynic as someone who knows the price of everything \u2014 and the value of nothing \u2014 has come to define this present moment of American politics.<\/p>\n<p>No wonder people have lost faith in politicians, parties and in our leadership. The power of money drives cynicism deep into the heart of every level of government. Everything, and everyone, comes with a price tag attached: from a seat at the table in the White House to a seat in Congress, to the fate of health care reform, our environment, and efforts to restrain Wall Street&#8217;s greed and prevent another financial catastrophe.<\/p>\n<p>Our government is not broken; it&#8217;s been bought out from under us, and on the right and the left and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Moyers and Michael Winship writes on Huffington Post: That famous definition of a cynic as someone who knows the price of everything \u2014 and the value of nothing \u2014 has come to define this present moment of American politics. No wonder people have lost faith in politicians, parties and in our leadership. The power [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}