{"id":6044,"date":"2017-09-02T09:51:59","date_gmt":"2017-09-02T16:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=6044"},"modified":"2017-09-02T09:51:59","modified_gmt":"2017-09-02T16:51:59","slug":"robert-reich-exactly-democrats-stand-occupy-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2017\/09\/02\/robert-reich-exactly-democrats-stand-occupy-com\/","title":{"rendered":"ROBERT REICH: WHAT EXACTLY DO THE DEMOCRATS STAND FOR? (Occupy.com)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">FRI, 9\/1\/2017 &#8211; BY\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"font-size: 12px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.occupy.com\/author\/robert-reich-inequality-media-civic-action\">ROBERT REICH &amp; INEQUALITY MEDIA CIVIC ACTION<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-info\">\n<div id=\"content-partner\">THIS ARTICLE ORIGINALLY APPEARED ON\u00a0<span class=\"content-partner-title\">INEQUALITY MEDIA CIVIC ACTION<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"sharethis\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g63STBKIX2g?rel=0&amp;wmode=opaque\" name=\"fitvid0\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field-name-body\">\n<p>The Democratic Party can lead the country in a new direction, but will it?<\/p>\n<p>Millions of Americans who are politically engaged for the first time in their lives are crying out for a bold alternative to bigoted and destructive policies.<\/p>\n<p>But Democrats can\u2019t just be anti-Trump or move to the middle.<\/p>\n<p>To be successful Democrats must address the forces that created Trump: The toxic combination of widening inequality and racism.<\/p>\n<p>The richest one percent now own more than the bottom 90 percent. Corporations and the rich are running our politics.<\/p>\n<p>The resulting economic stresses have made many people vulnerable to Trump\u2019s politics of hate and bigotry.<\/p>\n<p>If Democrats stand for one thing, it must be overcoming this unprecedented economic imbalance and creating a multi-racial, multi-ethnic coalition of the bottom 90 percent, to take back our economy and politics.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This requires, at the least:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Public investments in world-class schools and infrastructure for all.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Free public universities and first-class technical training for all;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Single-payer Medicare-for-All;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Higher taxes on the wealthy to pay for this;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Using antitrust to break up powerful monopolies on Wall Street, Big Tech, Big Pharma, and Big Agriculture.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Getting big money out of our politics.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Together, these steps form an agenda to reclaim our economy and democracy for all. Will Democrats lead the way?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FRI, 9\/1\/2017 &#8211; BY\u00a0ROBERT REICH &amp; INEQUALITY MEDIA CIVIC ACTION THIS ARTICLE ORIGINALLY APPEARED ON\u00a0INEQUALITY MEDIA CIVIC ACTION The Democratic Party can lead the country in a new direction, but will it? Millions of Americans who are politically engaged for the first time in their lives are crying out for&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2017\/09\/02\/robert-reich-exactly-democrats-stand-occupy-com\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6044"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6045,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6044\/revisions\/6045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}