{"id":7620,"date":"2016-01-24T18:51:13","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T01:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=7620"},"modified":"2016-01-24T18:51:13","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T01:51:13","slug":"real-change-happens-only-when-a-substantial-share-of-the-american-public-is-mobilized-organized-energized-and-determined-to-make-it-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/real-change-happens-only-when-a-substantial-share-of-the-american-public-is-mobilized-organized-energized-and-determined-to-make-it-happen\/","title":{"rendered":"&ldquo;real change happens only when a substantial share of the American public is mobilized, organized, energized, and determined to make it happen&rdquo;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/robertreich.org\/post\/137882162570\">Robert Reich (Bernie\u2019s Movement)<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/robertreich.org\/post\/137882162570\"> <\/p>\n<h4>Bernie\u2019s Movement<\/h4>\n<p><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/robertreich.org\/post\/137882162570\">Saturday, January 23, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<p>New York Times columnist Paul Krugman yesterday warned Bernie supporters that change doesn\u2019t happen with \u201ctransformative rhetoric\u201d but with \u201cpolitical pragmatism\u201d \u2013 \u201caccepting half loaves as being better than none.\u201d He writes that it\u2019s dangerous to prefer \u201chappy dreams (by which he means Bernie) to hard thinking about means and ends (meaning Hillary).\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Krugman doesn\u2019t get it. I\u2019ve been in and around Washington for almost fifty years, including a stint in the cabinet, and I\u2019ve learned that real change happens only when a substantial share of the American public is mobilized, organized, energized, and determined to make it happen.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Political \u201cpragmatism\u201d may require accepting \u201chalf loaves\u201d \u2013 but the full loaf has to be large and bold enough in the first place to make the half loaf meaningful. That\u2019s why the movement must aim high \u2013 toward a single-payer universal health, free public higher education, and busting up the biggest banks, for example.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>But not even a half loaf is possible unless or until we wrest back power from the executives of large corporations, Wall Street bankers, and billionaires who now control the whole bakery. Which means getting big money out of politics and severing the link between wealth and political power \u2013 the central goal of the movement Bernie is advancing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/robertreich.org\/post\/137882162570\">Robert Reich (Bernie\u2019s Movement)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Reich (Bernie\u2019s Movement) Bernie\u2019s Movement Saturday, January 23, 2016 New York Times columnist Paul Krugman yesterday warned Bernie supporters that change doesn\u2019t happen with \u201ctransformative rhetoric\u201d but with \u201cpolitical pragmatism\u201d \u2013 \u201caccepting half loaves as being better than none.\u201d He writes that it\u2019s dangerous to prefer \u201chappy dreams (by which he means Bernie) to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/real-change-happens-only-when-a-substantial-share-of-the-american-public-is-mobilized-organized-energized-and-determined-to-make-it-happen\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&ldquo;real change happens only when a substantial share of the American public is mobilized, organized, energized, and determined to make it happen&rdquo;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7621,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7620\/revisions\/7621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}