{"id":4208,"date":"2020-11-17T11:26:24","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T16:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/?p=4208"},"modified":"2020-11-17T11:26:24","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T16:26:24","slug":"blog-post-11-18-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2020\/11\/17\/blog-post-11-18-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Post 11\/18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In \u201cThe Coming Revolt of the Guards\u201d Zinn talks about how the elite oppress the ordinary people.\u00a0 Writing, \u201cAll those histories of this country centered on the Founding Fathers and the Presidents weigh oppressively on the capacity of the ordinary citizen to act.\u201d\u00a0 The Founding Fathers of course being elites themselves wanted to make sure that they were able to control the common man.\u00a0 That\u2019s why only the rich white landowners had voting rights back then.\u00a0 Now however, the elite displays their control in different ways, \u201cOne percent of the nation owns A third of the wealth. The rest of the wealth is distributed in such a way as to turn those in the 99 percent against one another: small property owners against the propertyless, black against white, native-born against foreign-born, intellectuals and professionals against the uneducated and unskilled.\u201d\u00a0 The elite want to put the rest of the United States against each other for their own gain, and that\u2019s not right.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Zinn says that there is a growing dissension in the 99 percent, and that it isn\u2019t just the poor people.\u00a0 However, \u201cNow alienation has spread upward into families above the poverty line. These are white workers, neither rich nor poor, but angry over economic insecurity, unhappy with their work, worried about their neighborhoods.\u201d\u00a0 This dissension doesn\u2019t bode well for the establishment because they just want to keep the normal.\u00a0 The establishment doesn\u2019t want the rest of the people to focus on them, but they want to keep the rest of the people fighting amongst themselves.\u00a0 This is because they are able to keep their power when there are disputes amongst the rest of the people.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In \u201cThe Coming Revolt of the Guards\u201d Zinn talks about how the elite oppress the ordinary people.\u00a0 Writing, \u201cAll those histories of this country centered&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2020\/11\/17\/blog-post-11-18-2\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blog Post 11\/18<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4923,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4208","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\/4208","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\/4923"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4209,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4208\/revisions\/4209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}