{"id":140,"date":"2015-08-06T12:59:33","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T12:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trustworthygovernment.us\/?p=140"},"modified":"2015-08-12T16:57:08","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T16:57:08","slug":"how-we-will-save-our-democracy-and-how-we-wont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trustworthygovernment.us\/?p=140","title":{"rendered":"How We Will Save Our Democracy (and How We Won\u2019t)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Mark Mehringer at <a href=\"http:\/\/CleanSlateNow.org\" target=\"_blank\">CleanSlateNow.org<\/a> for\u00a0bringing our attention to\u00a0a very important conversation. \u00a0Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@matthewsaks\/how-we-will-save-our-democracy-and-how-we-won-t-5e1e885cb345\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Saks\u2019 blog<\/a> \u00a0about a Rick Hansen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/politics\/2015\/04\/hillary_clinton_and_campaign_finance_the_democratic_front_runner_s_suggestion.html\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> in Slate. \u00a0The title of Saks&#8217; piece is <strong>&#8220;How We Will Save Our Democracy (and How We Won\u2019t)&#8221;. \u00a0<\/strong>This is a conversation that pro-democracy reformers really need to have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Mark Mehringer at CleanSlateNow.org for&nbsp;bringing our attention to&nbsp;a very important conversation. &nbsp;Check out Matthew Saks&rsquo; blog &nbsp;about a Rick Hansen article in Slate. &nbsp;The title of Saks&rsquo; piece is &ldquo;How We Will Save Our Democracy (and How We Won&rsquo;t)&rdquo;. &nbsp;This is a conversation that pro-democracy reformers really need to have.<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trustworthygovernment.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trustworthygovernment.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trustworthygovernment.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trustworthygovernment.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trustworthygovernment.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/trustworthygovernment.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144,"href":"https:\/\/trustworthygovernment.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions\/144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trustworthygovernment.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trustworthygovernment.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trustworthygovernment.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}