{"id":1031,"date":"2017-06-12T09:17:44","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T14:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/?p=1031"},"modified":"2019-02-02T18:07:18","modified_gmt":"2019-02-02T23:07:18","slug":"liberal-or-a-revolutionary-reform-or-replace-are-liberals-still-relevant-is-reform-possible-what-role-for-revolutionaries-until-the-revolution-is-upon-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/?p=1031","title":{"rendered":"Are liberals still relevant? If not, is reform possible? What is the role for peaceful revolutionaries?"},"content":{"rendered":"

My published Comment on NYTimes article telling supposed liberal readers to\u00a0 ‘Stop Pretending You’re Not Rich<\/a>‘: “I agree with others who are surprised at the resistance and animosity shown to this article.\u00a0I think it’s the word “rich” that can drive NYTimes “liberals” into a frenzy. Readers complain about working 60 hours a week (good point, I’ve been there, must take responsibility for one’s life) and their debts and costs that eat away at an income of 200,000 or 300,000. So they claim they are really just middle class and not part of the economic problem. Ridiculous.<\/p>\n

The article is imperfect, but at the same time right on the mark. It says a lot about us. My measure of middle class is the number of bathrooms that you have. My family of five always had one bathroom. There was one income producer, maxing out at 62,000 for eleven months of work (yes, that’s academe for many of us). But every year I got excited about the start of the year and exhausted by its end. There have been difficult times of other sorts, but financially and work-wise I am grateful and rich in many ways. Sometimes it seems like we are a nation of complainers who are never going to do anything more.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My published Comment on NYTimes article telling supposed liberal readers to\u00a0 ‘Stop Pretending You’re Not Rich‘: “I agree with others who are surprised at the resistance and animosity shown to this article.\u00a0I think it’s the word “rich” that can drive NYTimes “liberals” into a frenzy. Readers complain about working 60 hours a week (good point, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1031"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions\/1034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}