{"id":2792,"date":"2018-09-17T22:10:33","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T03:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2792"},"modified":"2018-09-17T22:10:33","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T03:10:33","slug":"the-pitchforks-are-coming-for-us-plutocrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2792","title":{"rendered":"The Pitchforks Are Coming\u2026 For Us Plutocrats"},"content":{"rendered":"<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>via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2014\/06\/the-pitchforks-are-coming-for-us-plutocrats-108014\">The Pitchforks Are Coming\u2026 For Us Plutocrats &#8211; POLITICO Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<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 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2792\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2793,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2792\/revisions\/2793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}