{"id":178080,"date":"2019-03-12T20:46:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T01:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/03\/12\/just-how-corrupt-is-our-society\/"},"modified":"2019-03-12T20:46:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T01:46:00","slug":"just-how-corrupt-is-our-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/03\/12\/just-how-corrupt-is-our-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Just How Corrupt is Our Society?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 120%; font-variant: small-caps;\">We&#8217;re Not Talking about Donating a Building \u2026\u2026\u2026We&#8217;re Talking about Deception and Fraud.<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2014Andrew Lelling<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Who is Andrew Lelling, you ask?<\/p>\n<p>He is the US Attorney for Massachusetts who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/03\/12\/us\/college-admissions-cheating-scandal.html\">filed multiple indictments for people falsifying tests and bribing university officials to get their kids into exclusive schools<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I do not see how this is different from how<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theroot.com\/remember-that-time-when-jared-kushner-s-dad-donated-2-1833241931\"> Jared Kushner got into Harvard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>America:&nbsp; Where people who are born on third base, and think that they have a triple, still need their parents to buy their way into school.<\/p>\n<p>We are dealing with the myth of meritocracy and the reality of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kakistocracy\">kakistocracy<\/a>, and I fear that it is only going to get worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a quote: We&#8217;re Not Talking about Donating a Building \u2026\u2026\u2026We&#8217;re Talking about Deception and Fraud. \u2014Andrew Lelling Who is Andrew Lelling, you ask? He is the US Attorney for Massachusetts who filed multiple indictments for people falsifying tests and bribing university officials to get their kids into exclusive schools. I do not see &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[368,397,364,407],"class_list":["post-178080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-corruption","tag-education","tag-evil","tag-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178080"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}