{"id":2180,"date":"2022-07-28T05:56:35","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T15:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/?p=2180"},"modified":"2022-07-28T05:56:35","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T15:56:35","slug":"elections-2022-hawaii-now-has-an-entrenched-oligarchy-that-usurps-democracy-and-public-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/?p=2180","title":{"rendered":"Elections 2022: Hawaii now has an entrenched Oligarchy that usurps democracy and public interest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Do you agree with this statement? Who and what groups and organizations are part of this Oligarchy? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Corporate Media? Industry unions? Healthcare? Insurance? Legal? Finance? Banking? Lobbyists? Consultants? Billionaires? Politicians? Mercenary Electioneering Experts? Fortune 500 corporations?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"431\" src=\"https:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-28-at-5.33.54-AM-1024x431.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2181\" srcset=\"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-28-at-5.33.54-AM-1024x431.png 1024w, http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-28-at-5.33.54-AM-470x198.png 470w, http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-28-at-5.33.54-AM-768x323.png 768w, http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-28-at-5.33.54-AM-1536x647.png 1536w, http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-28-at-5.33.54-AM-2048x862.png 2048w, http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-28-at-5.33.54-AM-624x263.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1016\" src=\"https:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-28-at-5.47.32-AM-1024x1016.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2182\" srcset=\"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-28-at-5.47.32-AM-1024x1016.png 1024w, http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-28-at-5.47.32-AM-454x450.png 454w, http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-28-at-5.47.32-AM-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-28-at-5.47.32-AM-768x762.png 768w, http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-28-at-5.47.32-AM-624x619.png 624w, http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-28-at-5.47.32-AM.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you agree with this statement? Who and what groups and organizations are part of this Oligarchy? Corporate Media? Industry unions? Healthcare? Insurance? Legal? Finance? Banking? Lobbyists? Consultants? Billionaires? Politicians? Mercenary Electioneering Experts? Fortune 500 corporations?<\/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":[2,8],"class_list":["post-2180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-hawaii","tag-honolulu"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2183,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180\/revisions\/2183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}