{"id":404723,"date":"2021-11-25T09:30:52","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T09:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=226086"},"modified":"2021-11-25T09:30:52","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T09:30:52","slug":"what-would-have-worked-better-than-building-back-anything-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/11\/25\/what-would-have-worked-better-than-building-back-anything-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What Would Have Worked Better Than Building Back Anything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The most well-known problem with lesser-evil, two-party, winner-take-all elections, at least in a system of legalized bribery and corporate-state media, is the absence of virtually any really good candidates. Naturally this results in (or is at least one major cause of) the tendency of many to not vote at all \u2014 with the United States  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/11\/25\/what-would-have-worked-better-than-building-back-anything\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/11\/25\/what-would-have-worked-better-than-building-back-anything\/\">What Would Have Worked Better Than Building Back Anything<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/11\/25\/what-would-have-worked-better-than-building-back-anything\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most well-known problem with lesser-evil, two-party, winner-take-all elections, at least in a system of legalized bribery and corporate-state media, is the absence of virtually any really good candidates. Naturally this results in (or is at least o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1817,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404723"}],"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\/1817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404723"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":405383,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404723\/revisions\/405383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}