{"id":49138,"date":"2016-01-20T09:28:04","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T14:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=49138"},"modified":"2016-01-20T09:32:10","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T14:32:10","slug":"on-hillary-and-bernie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2016\/01\/on-hillary-and-bernie\/","title":{"rendered":"On Hillary and Bernie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/hilary-clinton-1024.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-49147\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/hilary-clinton-1024-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"hilary-clinton-1024\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/hilary-clinton-1024-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/hilary-clinton-1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/hilary-clinton-1024-150x113.jpg 150w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/hilary-clinton-1024-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I am a progressive. I want the things Bernie promises for this country. I want universal health care, and free higher education, and reduced incarceration, and an end to the artificial redistribution of wealth into the pockets of the filthy rich.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">But I\u00a0also understand basic civics, and I read the news, so I know that the Republican party is simultaneously in shambles and completely entrenched in Congress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Bernie Sanders has no plan for enacting his ambitious, domestic,\u00a0<em>legislative<\/em> agenda other than \u201cpolitical revolution.\u201d\u00a0Vote for me, he says, and we\u2019ll get the money out of politics and thereby\u00a0<em>force<\/em>Congress to listen to the American people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Putting aside the questionable idea that campaign finance reform is the only thing standing between the United States and truly representative politics (our politics was morally bankrupt long before\u00a0<em>Citizens United<\/em>), we are not going to have a revolution in 2016. We are going to have a new president.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I know what a revolution looks like, and this election\u2014using the complicated system of party delegates and the electoral college to choose the leader of one of the three branches of the government of the most powerful empire in the world\u2014is not it. This is politics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">And if Sanders tries to force this Congress to do something like raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour nationally,\u00a0the likely\u00a0<em>political<\/em> result will be a government shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>READ FULL ARTICLE =&gt;\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/bottlemagazine.com\/2016\/01\/19\/on-hillary-and-bernie\/\" target=\"_blank\">On Hillary and Bernie \u2013 bottlemagazine<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a progressive. I want the things Bernie promises for this country. I want universal health care, and free higher education, and reduced incarceration, and an end to the artificial redistribution of wealth into the pockets of the filthy rich. But I\u00a0also understand basic civics, and I read the news, so I know that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1774,1628,22,68],"tags":[795,1812,1796,1987,714],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49138"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49138"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49148,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49138\/revisions\/49148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}