{"id":24357,"date":"2017-07-05T12:23:57","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T16:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=24357"},"modified":"2017-07-05T12:23:57","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T16:23:57","slug":"2-silicon-valley-billionaires-want-to-reinvent-the-democratic-party-with-a-new-project-called-wtf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2017\/07\/05\/2-silicon-valley-billionaires-want-to-reinvent-the-democratic-party-with-a-new-project-called-wtf\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Silicon Valley billionaires want to reinvent the Democratic Party with a new project called &#8216;WTF&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Business Insider<\/em> has the article<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/wtf-win-the-future-reid-hoffman-democrats-2017-7\" target=\"_blank\"> 2 Silicon Valley billionaires want to reinvent the Democratic Party with a new project called &#8216;WTF&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;We need a modern people&#8217;s lobby that empowers all of us to choose our leaders and set our agenda,&#8221; said Mark Pincus, the billionaire cofounder of Zynga who is partnering with Hoffman to start WTF. &#8220;Imagine voting for a president we&#8217;re truly excited about. Imagine a government that promotes capitalism and civil rights.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here is the first question they should ask us to vote on. &#8220;Should the rules be written so that people like them do not end up being billionaires?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The fact that a few people become billionaires is the crux of the problem. I don&#8217;t have any ideas about how the rules should be rewritten. It just seems obvious to me that if a few people around the world become billionaires while too many people go hungry, then the system is broken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business Insider has the article 2 Silicon Valley billionaires want to reinvent the Democratic Party with a new project called &#8216;WTF&#8217; &#8220;We need a modern people&#8217;s lobby that empowers all of us to choose our leaders and set our agenda,&#8221; said Mark Pincus, the billionaire cofounder of Zynga who is partnering with Hoffman to start [&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-24357","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\/24357","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=24357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24358,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24357\/revisions\/24358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}