{"id":11790,"date":"2020-02-03T00:21:56","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T00:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=11790"},"modified":"2020-02-03T00:38:30","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T00:38:30","slug":"one-hand-clapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=11790","title":{"rendered":"One hand clapping…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The United States Senate in its anticipated wisdom to acquit The Donald of impeachment is offering this:<\/p>\n

\u00a0Abandon\u00a0reason in favour of sudden enlightenment.<\/em><\/p>\n

So I guess that is the upside!<\/p>\n

One hand clapping Koan anybody?<\/p>\n

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Within the United States, the Senate is referred to as the “world’s greatest deliberative body<\/b>“.<\/p>\n

Within the United States,the country is referred to as the “world’s greatest democracy”.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Then there is this:<\/p>\n

Editors note: Court Painter has no idea whether the Democracy Index is accurate however make of it what you will!<\/em><\/p>\n

Democracy Index by country 2019<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Economist Intelligence Unit<\/b> (EIU<\/b>) is a British business within the Economist Group<\/a> providing forecasting and advisory services through research and analysis.<\/p>\n

Coming in at #25 \u00a0The United States of America under Regime Type is listed as Flawed Democracy.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The United States Senate in its anticipated wisdom to acquit The Donald of impeachment is offering this: \u00a0Abandon\u00a0reason in favour of sudden enlightenment. So I guess that is the upside! One hand clapping Koan anybody? Within the United States, the Senate is referred to as the “world’s greatest deliberative body“. Within the United States,the country … Continue reading “One hand clapping…”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11790"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11838,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11790\/revisions\/11838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}