Candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
Joined February 2009
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Whether the issue is guns, quality of our food, desecration of our earth, lack of healthcare or any where else corporate profits are our new false god, It’s going to take more than someone going to DC to “fight for you” to fix this. It’s going to take full on citizen activation.
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Majority of Americans want universal background checks, want to outlaw the sale of bump stocks & want to outlaw the sale of military style rifles to civilians. Yet the will of the people is overridden by the will of the NRA, which puts gun manufacturing profits above all else.
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The problem doesn’t lie with the consciousness of the American people; the problem lies with the moral equivocation of a government that is a handmaiden to corporate forces like gun lobbies, oil lobbies, chemical lobbies etc. as opposed to advocates for democracy and the people.
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Bush was Governor of Texas; was the Iraq war competent policy? You mentioned Reagan being governor of California; was trickle down economics competent policy?
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We have a sociopathic & unjust economic system; millions of American children live w/ chronic trauma; systemic racism needs to be addressed; and we focus too much on preparing for war at the expense of efforts to wage peace. None are fun to look at but all are fixable when we do.
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That our economic system is sociopathic and unjust, millions of American children live in chronic trauma, layers of systemic racism must be dismantled, and efforts to prepare for war are crowding out efforts to wage peace.
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Some Dems don’t tell people what’s deeply true, not that they don’t know what’s true but cuz they think it will turn people off or scare them if we’re that honest. But that infantilizes people. We have to name the truth to claim the truth, in politics no less than anywhere else.
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The two most powerful political revolutions of the 20th century were Mahatma Gandhi’s Indian Independence Movement and Martin Luther King’s Civil Rights movement. Both were non-violent. Nonviolence is not less powerful; it is MORE powerful.
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Quite the opposite. Look into the United States in the 1950s. Higher taxes for the richest, and a thriving middle class.
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No president can go to Washington and get a magic wand to just fix everything; America needs an uprising of consciousness among all its citizens. I don’t want to go to Washington and fight for you. I want to go to Washington and co-create with you.
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