{"id":1802,"date":"2010-10-11T15:07:55","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T22:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2010\/10\/we_buy_democracy_one_race_at_a\/"},"modified":"2010-10-11T15:07:55","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T22:07:55","slug":"we_buy_democracy_one_race_at_a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2010\/10\/we_buy_democracy_one_race_at_a.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We Buy Democracy One Race at a Time&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Never mind the solemn hyperbole of this <a href=\"http:\/\/pol.moveon.org\/republicorp_orgchart\/?id=24068-6982467-CKMOLhx&#038;t=1\">&#8220;leaked memo,&#8221;<\/a> which comes via MoveOn.org. It does tell the real story:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/pol.moveon.org\/republicorp_orgchart\/?id=24068-6982467-CKMOLhx&#038;t=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt title=\"The flow chart showing the 'restructuring plan' of the RepubliCorp takeover. [MoveOn.org]\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/assets_c\/2010\/10\/RepubliCorp280-thumb-280x281-17676.jpg\" width=\"280\" height=\"281\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" \/><\/a>The Cabal of Multinational Corporations is pleased to formally announce RepubliCorp<SUP>TM<\/SUP>, a new combined entity following our complete merger with the Republican Party.<\/p>\n<p>RepubliCorp<SUP>TM<\/SUP> combines the ethics-free campaigning savvy of the GOP with the limit-free spending power of Corporate America<SUP>TM<\/SUP>. This merger is precisely timed: With the recent <em>Citizens United<\/em> ruling finally placing the United States Government on the open market, RepubliCorp<SUP>TM<\/SUP> is now perfectly positioned to lead our hostile takeover bid, currently scheduled for completion on November 2nd 2010.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Click the illustration to see the flow chart of &#8220;the restructuring plan for the takeover  bid.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never mind the solemn hyperbole of this &#8220;leaked memo,&#8221; which comes via MoveOn.org. It does tell the real story: The Cabal of Multinational Corporations is pleased to formally announce RepubliCorpTM, a new combined entity following our complete merger with the Republican Party. RepubliCorpTM combines the ethics-free campaigning savvy of the GOP with the limit-free spending [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1802","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-t4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}