{"id":3601,"date":"2016-03-10T01:19:12","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T08:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/?p=3601"},"modified":"2016-03-10T14:29:32","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T21:29:32","slug":"what-is-government-political-cow-episode-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/2016\/03\/what-is-government-political-cow-episode-1\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Government? (Political Cow: Episode 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the College of Subversive Knowledge (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCrJ7ePzQqRyOnV-CKi0a6gA?spfreload=10\">SUBSCRIBE<\/a>):<br \/>\n<\/br><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pYisbmF8nwc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/br><\/p>\n<p>Using two cows as a metaphor for illustrating how various political systems function is a practice that&#8217;s been around since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politicalcow.com\/what-is-the-political-cow\">at least the 1930&#8217;s<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few of the better examples:<\/p>\n<p><strong>SOCIALISM:<\/strong> You have two cows. The government takes one and gives it to your neighbor.<\/p>\n<p><strong>COMMUNISM:<\/strong> You have two cows. You give them to the government, and the government then gives you some milk.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FASCISM:<\/strong> You have two cows. You give them to the government, and the government then sells you some milk.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CAPITALISM:<\/strong> You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NAZISM:<\/strong> You have two cows. The government takes both and shoots you.<\/p>\n<p>And that, in essence, is what Political Cow is all about:<br \/>\n<\/br><br \/>\n<\/br><br \/>\n<\/br><br \/>\n<\/br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the College of Subversive Knowledge (SUBSCRIBE): Using two cows as a metaphor for illustrating how various political systems function is a practice that&#8217;s been around since at least the 1930&#8217;s. Here are a few of the better examples: SOCIALISM: You have two cows. The government takes one and gives it to your neighbor. COMMUNISM: &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/2016\/03\/what-is-government-political-cow-episode-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What Is Government? (Political Cow: Episode 1)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[2737],"tags":[2602,2738,2709,2592,2739,2720,2740,2596,2669,2741,1581,2742,1881,1580,2743,2594,2744,2745,43,2746,2582,52,2747],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3601"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}