{"id":28006,"date":"2019-08-30T14:15:53","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T18:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=28006"},"modified":"2019-08-30T14:15:53","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T18:15:53","slug":"is-it-cynical-to-believe-the-system-is-corrupt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2019\/08\/30\/is-it-cynical-to-believe-the-system-is-corrupt\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it Cynical to Believe the System is Corrupt?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Real News Network <\/em>has the interview <a href=\"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/stories\/is-it-cynical-to-believe-the-system-is-corrupt\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Is it Cynical to Believe the System is Corrupt?<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWhile a new poll shows most US citizens believe the political and economic system is rigged against them, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren also echo this sentiment. Some conservatives are now pushing back. But what says the evidence? Bill Black analyzes the situation\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/69I_6tVhrPE\" style=\"border: thick ridge #009900;\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>Bill Black mentions the book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/p\/phishing-for-phools-george-a-akerlof\/1121862519\/2674712882346\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Real News Network has the interview Is it Cynical to Believe the System is Corrupt? While a new poll shows most US citizens believe the political and economic system is rigged against them, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren also echo this sentiment. Some conservatives are now pushing back. But what says the evidence? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28006","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28007,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28006\/revisions\/28007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}