{"id":1415,"date":"2019-10-28T09:29:34","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T13:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/?p=1415"},"modified":"2019-10-28T09:29:34","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T13:29:34","slug":"tyranny-is-tyranny-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2019\/10\/28\/tyranny-is-tyranny-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyranny is Tyranny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This reading gave me another viewpoint to look at the foundation of America. While I do not think it is to the same degree today, the wealth in America is the primary causation of any political or social change. This article shows that the poor have been working for the wealthy&#8217;s good. However, the wealthy get the most benefit out of it. For example, the mechanics who tried to promote a genuine democracy.<\/p>\n<p>Fighting for a true democracy has been a goal of the middle and lower class Americans for years. All across the world countries are run by some form of patriarchy. With a patriarchy comes different degrees of power. Is it possible to have a true democracy in hand with a patriarchal system of power? I don&#8217;t believe that it is 100% attainable. One can come close to balancing the powers, however with some form of unequal power there will always be so much &#8220;the people&#8221; of the country can influence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This reading gave me another viewpoint to look at the foundation of America. While I do not think it is to the same degree today,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2019\/10\/28\/tyranny-is-tyranny-13\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tyranny is Tyranny<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4070,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4070"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}