Candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
Joined February 2009
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I appreciate that you believe that, but there is absolutely no evidence that it is true. It is just their propaganda. Huge corporate tax breaks are used mainly to increase executive compensation, almost never to increase worker wages.
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President John Kennedy said this: "Those who make peaceful evolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable."
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There are examples in the world of a more enlightened economics, and while we can't change humanity as a whole we can work within the systems we're part of. That's what politics is: our collective decision-making in areas such as that
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It's a process. Abolitionists struggled for a world without slavery because they knew the possibility existed. Women suffragettes for a world where women could vote because they knew the possibility existed. Dr. King toward racial equality because he knew the possibility existed
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But much of the damage done will still be in place even after he is gone, so we shouldn't kid ourselves that that alone will make all the problems go away.
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There's a difference between noting it, and feeding it. There's a difference between transcendence and denial. In the words of James Baldwin, "Not everything faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed unless it is faced."
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It's a small consolation in an immediate sense, but a huge consolation in a larger one. For me, it's fuel to keep going...simultaneously a challenge to rise up and a guarantee that it will work.
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Ah, but cynicism is just an excuse for not helping. We can CHANGE what's wrong, and until we remember that we're just pawns of those who perpetrate the transgressions.
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As outraged as we might be at the sight of injustice, we must remain equally excited by the possibilities for a better world that lie on the other side of it. The enlightened activist is committed because we know that the other world exists & all of us are here to bring it forth.
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The reason economics is relevant to the spiritual journey is because issues of public morality are as significant as issues of private morality. What plays out collectively is as important as what plays out individually, & all of us are responsible for our part of the collective.
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Wait. What...?
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