{"id":764109,"date":"2026-07-15T09:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T09:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/764109\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T09:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T09:59:09","slug":"how-the-united-states-government-essentially-operates-these-days-letter-letters-to-the-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/764109\/","title":{"rendered":"How the United States government essentially operates these days [letter] | Letters To The Editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">Some people say the United States is a democracy. Others call it a democratic republic. Considering the current number of profiteers and influence peddlers in office, I think it is more like an unstable developing nation: a country with an economy based on state capitalism, in which everything is treated as a commercial enterprise for the profit of members of the ruling class and their families.<\/p>\n<p>God bless America!<\/p>\n<p>Geoff Petrasek<\/p>\n<p>Manheim Township<\/p>\n<p>\n                Success! An email has been sent to  with a link to confirm list signup.\n            <\/p>\n<p>\n                Error! There was an error processing your request.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some people say the United States is a democracy. Others call it a democratic republic. Considering the current&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":764110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,8649,326808,59478,3,26099,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-764109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-democracy","tag-developing-nation","tag-letter-to-the-editor","tag-news","tag-u-s-government","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=764109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/764110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}