{"id":534,"date":"2025-03-26T16:31:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T16:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lengel.net\/crossetthill2\/?p=534"},"modified":"2025-03-26T16:31:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T16:31:29","slug":"oligarchy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lengel.net\/crossetthill2\/2025\/03\/26\/oligarchy\/","title":{"rendered":"Oligarchy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bernie Sanders, pretty snarky.<br>Wants to fight the oligarchy.<br>What&#8217;s an oligarch you say?<br>Will they lead us all astray?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oligarchy means rule by the few,<br>(Not including me and you).<br>Aristotle, Greek and wise<br>Thought oligarchy not so nice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What happens to the people\u2019s needs,<br>When only rich men get to lead?<br>We\u2019ll soon find out, for we have let<br>The oligarchs place all the bets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Democracy, they say, has failed;<br>&#8220;Government must be empaled,<br>To a shadow of its former self,<br>Constitution? Off the shelf!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cA few financiers, rich and strong,<br>Are best to lead the teeming throng.\u201d<br>Do we think these big shots, selfish men,<br>Will make America great again?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Can they steer the ship of state<br>With all of us along as freight?<br>Stay vigilant when you embark<br>On a voyage with the oligarchs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keep an eye on your savings, your daughters too;<br>They\u2019re not to be trusted, these happy few.<br>Spoiled as children, they think that they<br>Must always and quickly get their way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We must now raise la r\u00e9sistance,<br>Deploy the law to to slow their advance;<br>Peaceably to assemble allegiances,<br>To block their way and redress our grievances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you, Bernie, for lighting the sparks<br>Of the fire that burns the oligarchs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Sanders, pretty snarky.Wants to fight the oligarchy.What&#8217;s an oligarch you say?Will they lead us all astray? Oligarchy means rule by the few,(Not including me and you).Aristotle, Greek and wiseThought oligarchy not so nice. What happens to the people\u2019s needs,When only rich men get to lead?We\u2019ll soon find out, for we have letThe oligarchs place &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lengel.net\/crossetthill2\/2025\/03\/26\/oligarchy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Oligarchy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lengel.net\/crossetthill2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lengel.net\/crossetthill2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lengel.net\/crossetthill2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lengel.net\/crossetthill2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lengel.net\/crossetthill2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lengel.net\/crossetthill2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":535,"href":"http:\/\/lengel.net\/crossetthill2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions\/535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lengel.net\/crossetthill2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lengel.net\/crossetthill2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lengel.net\/crossetthill2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}