{"id":598,"date":"2024-08-28T13:21:20","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T19:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=598"},"modified":"2024-08-28T13:21:20","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T19:21:20","slug":"this-is-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=598","title":{"rendered":"This <i>Is<\/i> Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe id=\"odysee-iframe\" style=\"width:100%; aspect-ratio:16 \/ 9;\" src=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/$\/embed\/@MarginalNonHermit:3\/This-Is-Democracy:4?r=8gvoByECHNgc2BfQ5o91oxf89bpi1Ui4\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Nothing too deep in this post, mostly some thoughts on the recent crackdowns in Britain against speech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">It&#8217;s worth remembering that complacency in a democratic system (whether purely democratic, parliamentary, republican, etc.) is a very easy way to lose the rights that you think are sacred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The government is not your friend, and it will find ways to turn you into a criminal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Video available on <a href=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/@MarginalNonHermit:3\/This-Is-Democracy:4?r=8gvoByECHNgc2BfQ5o91oxf89bpi1Ui4\">Odysee<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/old.bitchute.com\/video\/Ub8mQyucoBDK\/\">BitChute<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZY29jGhrZXQ\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing too deep in this post, mostly some thoughts on the recent crackdowns in Britain against speech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,4,2],"tags":[212,160,214,10,85,72,213],"class_list":["post-598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-philosophy","category-political","category-video-link","tag-anarchy","tag-democracy","tag-eternal-vigilance","tag-free-speech","tag-philosophy","tag-politics","tag-the-price-of-freedom"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/marginalnonhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/books-25.jpg?fit=638%2C235&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":599,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions\/599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}