{"id":457,"date":"2011-10-21T12:17:43","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T12:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/?p=457"},"modified":"2018-11-25T20:55:03","modified_gmt":"2018-11-25T20:55:03","slug":"we-the-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/?p=457","title":{"rendered":"We The People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pIKhRERqPS4&amp;feature=related\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Preamble<\/a> has the power to yank a few tears from my eyes, decades after I first saw it sharing Saturday morning cartoon commercial breaks with Cap&#8217;n Crunch.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, these days it should be scored as a dirge. One of the reasons is the rise of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2009\/05\/the-quiet-coup\/7364\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">corporatocracy\/kleptocracy,<\/a>* prompting the Occupy protests which started on Wall Street. Here&#8217;s the London occupation at St. Paul&#8217;s, where Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anothercyclingforum.com\/index.php?topic=76.msg727727#msg727727\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">once preached<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/protest1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-458\" title=\"protest1\" src=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/protest1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/protest1.jpg 700w, https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/protest1-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/protest2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-459\" title=\"protest2\" src=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/protest2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/protest2.jpg 700w, https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/protest2-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/protest3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-460\" title=\"protest3\" src=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/protest3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/protest3.jpg 700w, https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/protest3-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/protest5.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-461\" title=\"protest5\" src=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/protest5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/protest5.jpg 700w, https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/protest5-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/protest7.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-462\" title=\"protest7\" src=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/protest7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/protest7.jpg 700w, https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/protest7-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prettygoodbritain.com\/pics\/protestlarge.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">enlarge<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/protest6.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-463\" title=\"protest6\" src=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/protest6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/protest6.jpg 700w, https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/protest6-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/protest4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-464\" title=\"protest4\" src=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/protest4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/protest4.jpg 700w, https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/protest4-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>* At the risk of sounding like a hippy reading from cue cards. But you know, another world <em>is<\/em> possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Preamble has the power to yank a few tears from my eyes, decades after I first saw it sharing Saturday morning cartoon commercial breaks with Cap&#8217;n Crunch. Unfortunately, these days it should be scored as a dirge. 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