{"id":430,"date":"2017-03-13T18:23:19","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T23:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/?p=430"},"modified":"2017-03-13T18:23:19","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T23:23:19","slug":"on-the-heels-of-trumps-election-a-must-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/430","title":{"rendered":"On The Heels Of Trump’s Election A Must Watch…"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following two-part series, The People Versus America<\/em><\/a>, is a must watch. As hard as it may be for those who support Trump and his Make America Great Again <\/em><\/strong>theme it is those very folks who need to watch the series and come to\u00a0terms with its honest reality. Link to the video follow the text below.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Aljazeera<\/strong><\/a> – The election of Donald Trump in November 2016 exposed a deep vein of distrust across the US, where millions became disillusioned with a political and corporate elite out of touch with the sentiments of ordinary Americans.<\/p>\n

The institutions that serve US citizens are increasingly regarded as self-serving while the people are increasingly divided and polarised along racial and economic lines.<\/p>\n

In this two-part series, The Big Picture: The People vs America<\/em> we explore the construction and mythology of the American Dream and uncover the reality of exclusion and denial.<\/p>\n

We chart the history of post-Second World War America to uncover how race has dominated the political landscape and continues to shape the America of today.<\/p>\n

We also explore just how America became so fractured, and how for many, the American Dream has been lost.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

LINK <\/a><\/strong><\/em>to video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The following two-part series, The People Versus America, is a must watch. As hard as it may be for those who support Trump and his Make America Great Again theme it is those very folks who need to watch the series and come to\u00a0terms with its honest reality. Link to the video follow the text … Continue reading On The Heels Of Trump’s Election A Must Watch…<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-government"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ovtF-6W","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":342,"url":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/342","url_meta":{"origin":430,"position":0},"title":"Is It Wise, Or Even Possible, To Believe Anything Trump Says?…","author":"Les","date":"March 7, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Contradicting repeated denials from Donald Trump and his team, Newsmax reported on May 14,\u00a02016 that Trump met Russian Ambassador Kislyak at a VIP reception in Washington on April 27. 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Communications between Russian operatives and the Trump campaign certainly is cause to raise owns eyebrows. If true it lends credibility to the argument the presidential election was influenced by the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Foreign Relations"","block_context":{"text":"Foreign Relations","link":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/category\/foreign-relations"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":579,"url":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/579","url_meta":{"origin":430,"position":4},"title":"Koch Influence In The Trump Administration…","author":"Les","date":"April 4, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"The long reach of the Koch bothers into American conservative\/libertarian politics now reaches to the Trump administration. \u00a0They have been actively involved in exerting influence on politicians for years. 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