{"id":19447,"date":"2010-12-05T20:24:38","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T03:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=19447"},"modified":"2010-12-05T20:24:38","modified_gmt":"2010-12-06T03:24:38","slug":"democracy-vs-despotism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/05\/democracy-vs-despotism.html","title":{"rendered":"Democracy vs Despotism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=102585813125825400#\">A 1946 Encyclopedia Britannica classroom film<\/a> (a bit choppy at the beginning) on Democracy vs Despotism, drawing on lessons from the Third Reich.<\/p>\n<p><object id=\"VideoPlayback\" style=\"width: 400px; height: 326px;\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/googleplayer.swf?docid=102585813125825400&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=true\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Hmmmm &#8230; and here we are, with the increasing divisions within society &#8230; increasing efforts by more and more to marginalize the poor, the foreign, those from outside orthodox religion are considered increasingly to be disloyal Americans &#8230; the demand for respect only for those who toe the corporate line, the government line, the conservative line, the orthodox line &#8230; and for those in power (except when they&#8217;re from a group that Shouldn&#8217;t Be in Power) &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Hmmmm &#8230; increasing gap between the wealthy and the poor &#8230; increasing concentration of land ownership &#8230; increasing consolidation of corporations, including the media &#8230; release of unfavorable information to the public under increasing criticism by the government &#8230; media \u00a0outlets tied ever-more-closely to political parties &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Hmmmm &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 1946 Encyclopedia Britannica classroom film (a bit choppy at the beginning) on Democracy vs Despotism, drawing on lessons from the Third Reich. Hmmmm &#8230; and here we are, with the increasing divisions within society &#8230; increasing efforts by more and more to marginalize the poor, the foreign, those from outside orthodox religion are considered &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/05\/democracy-vs-despotism.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Democracy vs Despotism&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-law"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1948,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/04\/04\/the_1994_nobel.html","url_meta":{"origin":19447,"position":0},"title":"The 1994 Nobel Peace Prize Winner","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 4-Apr-02 9:13am","format":false,"excerpt":"Notes from a journalist who covered the first several weeks of Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority in 1994. 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