{"id":14759,"date":"2019-07-12T19:57:26","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T19:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fair.org\/?p=8933587"},"modified":"2019-07-12T19:57:26","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T19:57:26","slug":"this-is-designed-to-shape-the-electorate-to-retain-political-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2019\/07\/12\/this-is-designed-to-shape-the-electorate-to-retain-political-power\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018This Is Designed to Shape the Electorate to Retain Political Power\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<b>Election Focus 2020:<\/b> \"The people who tend to win out when you remove these forms of balancing tend to be white, entrenched majorities. This didn\u2019t come out of nowhere. These folks have been fighting for years. And it's pretty nasty stuff, quite frankly.\"\u00a0\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/home\/this-is-designed-to-shape-the-electorate-to-retain-political-power\/\">CounterSpin<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Election Focus 2020: &#8220;The people who tend to win out when you remove these forms of balancing tend to be white, entrenched majorities. This didn\u2019t come out of nowhere. These folks have been fighting for years. And it&#8217;s pretty nasty stuff, quite frankly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1253,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14759"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1253"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14759"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185568,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14759\/revisions\/185568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}