{"id":16443,"date":"2017-07-12T20:46:28","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T10:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=16443"},"modified":"2024-06-30T06:59:06","modified_gmt":"2024-06-29T20:59:06","slug":"lew-rockwell-on-governments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=16443","title":{"rendered":"Lew Rockwell On Governments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/LewRockwellOnGovernments.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-16444\" src=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/LewRockwellOnGovernments-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Lew Rockwell On Governments\" width=\"772\" height=\"772\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThis applies in America and Australia as much today as it ever did.<br \/>\nCurrently, members of political parties have a greater allegiance to their party and their donors than to their electorate.<br \/>\nWe need to start campaigning NOW to elect representatives of the electorate NOT representatives of political parties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This applies in America and Australia as much today as it ever did. Currently, members of political parties have a greater allegiance to their party and their donors than to their electorate. We need to start campaigning NOW to elect representatives of the electorate NOT representatives of political parties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52041,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16443\/revisions\/52041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}