{"id":17591,"date":"2014-06-28T13:42:34","date_gmt":"2014-06-28T17:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=17591"},"modified":"2014-06-28T13:42:34","modified_gmt":"2014-06-28T17:42:34","slug":"nick-hanauer-the-pitchforks-are-coming-for-us-plutocrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2014\/06\/28\/nick-hanauer-the-pitchforks-are-coming-for-us-plutocrats\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Hanauer: The Pitchforks Are Coming For Us Plutocrats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Politico<\/em> has the article <a title=\"Politico article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2014\/06\/the-pitchforks-are-coming-for-us-plutocrats-108014.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Pitchforks Are Coming For Us Plutocrats<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The most ironic thing about rising inequality is how completely unnecessary and self-defeating it is. If we do something about it, if we adjust our policies in the way that, say, Franklin D. Roosevelt did during the Great Depression\u2014so that we help the 99 percent and preempt the revolutionaries and crazies, the ones with the pitchforks\u2014that will be the best thing possible for us rich folks, too. It\u2019s not just that we\u2019ll escape with our lives; it\u2019s that we\u2019ll most certainly get even richer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So there are some zillionaires that see this coming, too.\u00a0 They even see the same solution that I do.\u00a0 Well, his solution may not go far enough, depending on how you interpret &#8220;help the 99 percent&#8221;, but it may be enough to &#8220;preempt the revolutionaries and crazies&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Now if he can put his money where his mouth is in politics and in convincing fellow zillionaires, perhaps we can save this country after all.\u00a0 If saving your country from disaster isn&#8217;t patriotic, then I don&#8217;t know what patriotism is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politico has the article The Pitchforks Are Coming For Us Plutocrats. The most ironic thing about rising inequality is how completely unnecessary and self-defeating it is. If we do something about it, if we adjust our policies in the way that, say, Franklin D. Roosevelt did during the Great Depression\u2014so that we help the 99 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17591","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17592,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17591\/revisions\/17592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}