{"id":31334,"date":"2025-01-23T16:42:33","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T16:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/23\/what-is-an-oligarchy-and-is-biden-right-to-call-it-a-threat-to-us-democracy\/"},"modified":"2025-01-23T16:42:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T16:42:33","slug":"what-is-an-oligarchy-and-is-biden-right-to-call-it-a-threat-to-us-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/23\/what-is-an-oligarchy-and-is-biden-right-to-call-it-a-threat-to-us-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"What is an oligarchy and is Biden right to call it a threat to US democracy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ultra-rich individuals are associating with Donald Trump as he ascends to the presidency for his second time<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/nov\/21\/trump-administration-kakistocracy\">Government by the worst\u2019: why people are calling Trump\u2019s new sidekicks a \u2018kakistocracy\u2019<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/joebiden\">Joe Biden<\/a> delivered an ominous message to Americans in his 15 January <a href=\"https:\/\/rollcall.com\/factbase\/biden\/transcript\/joe-biden-remarks-fairwell-address-to-the-nation-january-15-2025\/\">farewell address<\/a>, warning that a privileged few could soon be poised to wield enormous power in the US.<\/p>\n<p>Biden described a \u201cdangerous concentration of power in the hands of a very few ultra-wealthy people and the dangerous consequences if their abuse of power is left unchecked\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/23\/what-is-oligarchy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ultra-rich individuals are associating with Donald Trump as he ascends to the presidency for his second time \u2018Government by the worst\u2019: why people are calling Trump\u2019s new sidekicks a \u2018kakistocracy\u2019 Joe Biden delivered an ominous message to Americans in his 15 January farewell address, warning that a privileged few could soon be poised to wield &#8230; <a title=\"What is an oligarchy and is Biden right to call it a threat to US democracy?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/23\/what-is-an-oligarchy-and-is-biden-right-to-call-it-a-threat-to-us-democracy\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about What is an oligarchy and is Biden right to call it a threat to US democracy?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}