{"id":25335,"date":"2015-10-16T01:42:43","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T08:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/?p=25335"},"modified":"2015-10-08T21:08:15","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T04:08:15","slug":"representation-and-consent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/representation-and-consent\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Representation&#8221; \u2026 And &#8220;Consent&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ericpetersautos.com\/2015\/09\/21\/representation-and-consent\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/images\/Consent.png\" hspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" alt=\"\" \/>EricPetersAutos.com<\/a> | Democracy is an incredibly successful long con. It works because of the illusion of consent. People actually believe they are \u201crepresented.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And so, they accept impositions that would otherwise be intolerable, if imposed on them by a king or a fuhrer or generalissimo.<\/p>\n<p>But when the \u201cpeople\u201d have decided\u2026 .<\/p>\n<p>Except of course, they\u2019ve done no such thing. It is all an illusion, a rhetorical sleight-of-hand that deftly hides the reality that it is not the \u201cpeople\u201d who decide anything but rather a small handful of individuals who wield vast \u2013 almost unlimited \u2013 power by claiming to act on their behalf.<\/p>\n<p>Which is a fine-sounding literary device but as a political actuality it is an atrocity.<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever consented to anything the government does to you? Been offered the free choice to accept \u2013 or decline? And not subject to violent repercussions in the event you do decide to decline? What sort of contract is it that you\u2019re never actually been presented with but which you\u2019re presumed to have signed \u2013 and which you are bound by whether you\u2019ve signed \u2013 or not? <a href=\"http:\/\/ericpetersautos.com\/2015\/09\/21\/representation-and-consent\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read Entire Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Eric Peters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EricPetersAutos.com | Democracy is an incredibly successful long con. It works because of the illusion of consent. People actually believe they are \u201crepresented.\u201d And so, they accept impositions that would otherwise be intolerable, if imposed on them by a king or a fuhrer or generalissimo. But when the \u201cpeople\u201d have decided\u2026 . Except of course, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[294],"tags":[399,246,832],"class_list":["post-25335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-consent","tag-democracy","tag-social-contract"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}