{"id":82914,"date":"2022-07-25T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82914"},"modified":"2022-07-25T09:06:55","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T14:06:55","slug":"your-wish-is-my-command","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82914","title":{"rendered":"Your Wish Is My Command"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We&#8217;re being asked to watch out for signs our political, market and social leadership are thinking about threatening democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this case, by media historial Michael Beschloss:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">During the next few months, please carefully watch public statements by American leaders in politics, business, finance and entertainment for any shift to more accommodationist language about possible threats to our democracy.<\/p>&mdash; Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BeschlossDC\/status\/1550851971111960579?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 23, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>OK.  I&#8217;m on it.  Let&#8217;s get started:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Calls to abolish the electoral college, or otherwise make the government majoritarian &#8211; essentially voiding the contract that caused smaller-population states that put the &#8220;united&#8221; in &#8220;United States&#8221; in the first place. <\/li><li>Answering calls to tie the Senate to the popular vote. <\/li><li>Calls to to abolish the Supreme Court, &#8220;pack&#8221; it with people favorable to the current administration, or otherwise make it &#8220;follow public opinion&#8221;.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s see to these, shall we? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re being asked to watch out for signs our political, market and social leadership are thinking about threatening democracy. In this case, by media historial Michael Beschloss: OK. I&#8217;m on it. Let&#8217;s get started: Calls to abolish the electoral college, or otherwise make the government majoritarian &#8211; essentially voiding the contract that caused smaller-population states [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82914"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82926,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82914\/revisions\/82926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}