{"id":85,"date":"2012-02-08T21:38:40","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T04:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vthechan\/?p=85"},"modified":"2012-02-08T21:38:40","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T04:38:40","slug":"democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vthechan\/2012\/02\/08\/democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"$$ = Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Again I revisit the topic of whether Democracy can be bought. Yet again, the United States have proven that it is indeed do-able.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Recently, President Obama have been busy with constructing a million-dollar presidential campaign, funded by PACs. For those of us who don\u2019t know what PACs are: the full name is political action committee, which is used to advance a particular political objective. These contributions are made in excess of $1000 in hope to alter the outcome of federal elections. To put this in perspective, the level of funding is as follows,<\/p>\n

\u201cThe new joint effort, fundraisers stress, is expected to be contingent on pulling together a group of super donors who collectively would pony up between $40 million and $100 million. Fundraisers note that it\u2019s important to potential big individual donors that if they write checks in the $5 million range, their contributions would be matched by several others.\u201d<\/p>\n

Source: http:\/\/www.iwatchnews.org\/2012\/02\/08\/8111\/democratic-operatives-seeking-million-dollar-checks-super-pacs<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

It is said that this is a very cynical move by President Obama, who, last year, called the PACs a \u201cthreat to democracy\u201d. What do you think? Is it necessary in a capitalist society? Or is it just a scam? Personally, I understand the position of President Obama, yet still feel disappointed with his choice of compromising his strong conviction for fighting against corporate-dominated politics. What say you?<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Again I revisit the topic of whether Democracy can be bought. Yet again, the United States have proven that it is indeed do-able. Recently, President Obama have been busy with constructing a million-dollar presidential campaign, funded by PACs. For those of us who don\u2019t know what PACs are: the full name is political action committee, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11336,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vthechan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vthechan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vthechan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vthechan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11336"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vthechan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vthechan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vthechan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions\/89"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vthechan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vthechan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vthechan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}