{"id":3341,"date":"2016-05-12T21:02:07","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T01:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=3341"},"modified":"2016-05-25T18:10:31","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T22:10:31","slug":"does-america-need-more-political-dynamism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/does-america-need-more-political-dynamism\/","title":{"rendered":"Does America Need More Political Dynamism?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Political-Dynamism.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3342\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/does-america-need-more-political-dynamism\/political-dynamism\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Political-Dynamism.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"357,462\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Political Dynamism\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Political-Dynamism-232x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Political-Dynamism.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3342\" src=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Political-Dynamism.jpg\" alt=\"Political Dynamism\" width=\"357\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Political-Dynamism.jpg 357w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Political-Dynamism-232x300.jpg 232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 357px) 100vw, 357px\" \/><\/a>We have all heard the railings of the presidential aspirants about the federal government: that it\u2019s corrupt; that it\u2019s rigged by the malevolent establishment against the common man; that the economy is faltering because elites and their cronies are hoarding the wealth.<\/p>\n<p>To solve these problems, office-seekers peddle beguiling simplistic solutions like getting big money out of politics, evicting special interests from the temple and returning government to the people. Inspiring as these notions may be, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newamerica.org\/experts\/lee-drutman\/\">Lee Drutman<\/a> counsels that we should move beyond such \u201cimpractical utopianism\u201d to solutions that accept the \u201cfundamental realities of politics&#8221;&#8230;. (Read more at the <a href=\"http:\/\/R Street Institute Blog, April 5, 2016.\">R Street Institute Blog<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have all heard the railings of the presidential aspirants about the federal government: that it\u2019s corrupt; that it\u2019s rigged by the malevolent establishment against the common man; that the economy is faltering because elites and their cronies are hoarding the wealth. To solve these problems, office-seekers peddle beguiling simplistic solutions like getting big money [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[160],"tags":[176],"class_list":["post-3341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","tag-r-street-institute-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-RT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3343,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341\/revisions\/3343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}