{"id":4251,"date":"2009-05-18T12:00:37","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T04:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=4251"},"modified":"2009-05-17T23:57:03","modified_gmt":"2009-05-17T15:57:03","slug":"1986-of-democracies-exist-because","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=4251","title":{"rendered":"[1986] Of democracies exist because&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those who fear confrontation with respect to Perak may lead us to the path of Thailand:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Democracies exist only because enough people were unwilling to be sheep, and brave enough to fight violent wars to achieve a share in power. [Page 227. <em>Good and Bad Power: The Ideals and Betrayals of Government<\/em>. Geoff Mulgan.]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I consider it as a game of war of attrition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who fear confrontation with respect to Perak may lead us to the path of Thailand: Democracies exist only because enough people were unwilling to be sheep, and brave enough to fight violent wars to achieve a share in power. [Page 227. Good and Bad Power: The Ideals and Betrayals of Government. Geoff Mulgan.] [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,4,8,11],"tags":[231,721],"class_list":["post-4251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conflict-disaster","category-liberty","category-politics-government","category-society","tag-democracy","tag-geoff-mulgan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4251"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4253,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4251\/revisions\/4253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}