{"id":1301,"date":"2017-07-01T16:34:53","date_gmt":"2017-07-01T21:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/?p=1301"},"modified":"2017-07-01T16:34:53","modified_gmt":"2017-07-01T21:34:53","slug":"those-who-do-not-know-history-are-doomed-to-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=1301","title":{"rendered":"Those Who Do Not Know History &#8230; Are Doomed To Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A facet of world history that stood out to me as a high school student was the difference a robust middle class made in the stability of a country. Lots of destitute people (aka people who don&#8217;t have much to lose) and you have lots of civil unrest, lawlessness, and insurrection. Lots of middle class people (people who aren&#8217;t rich beyond all telling, but have enough that they want to protect &#8216;their&#8217; stuff), both the upper and ruling classes retain their power and resources for decades if not centuries.<\/p>\n<p>I thought of this whilst reading an article about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2017\/07\/01\/grinding-down-the-cracks-in-the-system\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rebranding &#8220;entitlements&#8221; as &#8220;insurance&#8221; <\/a>&#8212; Medicaid as insurance in case\u00a0<em>you<\/em> yourself become disabled in the future. Social Security against you yourself getting old someday.<\/p>\n<p>But taxes for entitlements are social stability insurance. The entire point of redistributing income is to ensure a sufficient portion of the population is happy enough that they work to preserve existing social structures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A facet of world history that stood out to me as a high school student was the difference a robust middle class made in the stability of a country. Lots of destitute people (aka people who don&#8217;t have much to lose) and you have lots of civil unrest, lawlessness, and insurrection. Lots of middle class &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[171,26],"class_list":["post-1301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-history","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1302,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301\/revisions\/1302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}