{"id":5952,"date":"2010-06-24T10:39:59","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T10:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=5952"},"modified":"2010-06-24T10:39:59","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T10:39:59","slug":"government-of-the-people-needs-a-rebirth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=5952","title":{"rendered":"government of the people needs a rebirth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m turning the mike over to Harry Boyte for today. Here&#8217;s his latest op-ed:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\" http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/opinion\/ci_15362133?nclick_check=1\"><\/p>\n<ul>Neither &#8216;nurturing mother&#8217; nor &#8216;alien force,&#8217; government of the people needs a rebirth<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Harry C. Boyte St. Paul Pioneer Press June 24, 2010<\/p>\n<p>The fall governor&#8217;s race offers a chance to bring back the genuinely populist politics which created the &#8216;Minnesota Miracle.&#8217; But it will be up to everyone to make it real. Both Democrats and Republicans have forgotten the essence of this politics &#8211; productive citizenship in which government is partner of citizens in addressing our problems. A campaign built on renewed citizenship would be far different than the pro or anti-government approaches that now dominate.<\/p>\n<p>There is no better formulation of the authentic populist philosophy than Abraham Lincoln, who called for government &#8220;of the people, by the people, for the people.&#8221; In his formulation government was not simply &#8220;for&#8221; the people. It was embedded in the life of communities, &#8220;of&#8221; the people. And it was meeting ground and instrument of the people, &#8220;by&#8221; the people. <\/ul>\n<p><a href=\" http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/opinion\/ci_15362133?nclick_check=1\">Read the rest here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m turning the mike over to Harry Boyte for today. Here&#8217;s his latest op-ed: Neither &#8216;nurturing mother&#8217; nor &#8216;alien force,&#8217; government of the people needs a rebirth By Harry C. Boyte St. Paul Pioneer Press June 24, 2010 The fall governor&#8217;s race offers a chance to bring back the genuinely populist politics which created the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}