{"id":2297,"date":"2010-04-22T06:17:45","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T06:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2010-04-22T06:18:59","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T06:18:59","slug":"nepotism_and_ol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2297","title":{"rendered":"Nepotism and Oligarchy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3396\" target=\"browser\">Zenpundit has a incisive post up<\/a> on the corrosion of nationalism by oligarchic elites, who look beyond the walls to grow and perpetuate themselves.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Oligarchs elevate self-interest and class interest over national interest, it&#8217;s the signature of oligarchy, be it the Thirty Tyrants or the Soviet nomenklatura. Milovan Djilas knew what the hell he was writing about as much as did Thucydides.<\/p>\n<p>What to do?<\/p>\n<p>The proto-oligarchical class in America, the elite who are the product of &#8220;the good schools&#8221;, tend to embrace and celebrate progressive taxation and diversity as high moral principles. What if we applied them?<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think the specifics of his proposal are a little wacky, but he&#8217;s got his thumb on a problem.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, maybe I should get him together with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.windsofchange.net\/archives\/a_setting_son.html\" target=\"browser\">Adam<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.windsofchange.net\/archives\/006949.html\" target=\"browser\">Bellow<\/a>&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are the relations between national decline and the rise of oligarchies?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}