{"id":6016,"date":"2010-10-13T13:50:05","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T13:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=6016"},"modified":"2010-10-13T13:50:05","modified_gmt":"2010-10-13T13:50:05","slug":"working-to-improve-the-national-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=6016","title":{"rendered":"working to improve the national conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Political discussion today is poisonous, but some people and organizations are trying to make it more substantive and constructive.<\/p>\n<p>My friend Les Francis <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frumforum.com\/send-voters-back-to-civics-class\">highlights several projects<\/a>. Running to Govern is a group of &#8220;young, skilled political organizers and policy wonks who will labor only for candidates&#8211;Republican or Democratic&#8211;who are pledged to work toward solutions to our nation\u2019s most pressing problems.&#8221; Les also mentions a bipartisan group of retired Members of Congress, including John Porter (R-IL) and our former colleague David Skaggs (D-CO), who are working together on proposals regarding &#8220;budget deficits, entitlement reform, infrastructure, and national security, the threat of terrorism, global competition and education reform.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Finally, here is a highlight tape from &#8220;AmericaSpeaks: Our Budget, Our Economy,&#8221; this past summer&#8217;s national citizens&#8217; deliberation.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/DfOqh_yKPR0?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/DfOqh_yKPR0?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political discussion today is poisonous, but some people and organizations are trying to make it more substantive and constructive. My friend Les Francis highlights several projects. Running to Govern is a group of &#8220;young, skilled political organizers and policy wonks who will labor only for candidates&#8211;Republican or Democratic&#8211;who are pledged to work toward solutions to [&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-6016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6016","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=6016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}