{"id":794,"date":"2025-07-20T11:04:40","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T11:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/?p=794"},"modified":"2025-07-20T11:04:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T11:04:40","slug":"the-descent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/uncategorized\/the-descent\/","title":{"rendered":"The descent &hellip;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The strength of democracy is also its weakness?<\/p>\n<p>In Amerika:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/2oadH\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/2oadH\">How Will We Know When We Have Lost Our Democracy?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And, slower but catching up, in the (f)UK:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"https:\/\/www.edwest.co.uk\/p\/contra-populum\" href=\"https:\/\/www.edwest.co.uk\/p\/contra-populum\">Contra populum: the case for honesty with the public<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The strength of democracy is also its weakness? In Amerika: How Will We Know When We Have Lost Our Democracy? And, slower but catching up, in the (f)UK: Contra populum: the case for honesty with the public<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":795,"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions\/795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}