Candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
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It would be a negotiation. The numbers I landed on for now after much reading &consideration, is more than some would want to give and less than others would want to ask for. The job of the philosopher is to discern the true; the job of the politician is to discern the possible.
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Thanks for asking. I’m reading Andrew Yang’s book now and it’s rather shattering. I think I might be getting there. I’m open but I need more time to research all the angles.
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Many ask my position on various issues. Please check out the Issues section of my site ... marianne2020.com/issues
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Of course both matter, but to get into the DNC debates you need 65,000 individual contributors. It doesn’t matter whether someone gave once or three times, they’re still one contributor.
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If more people who don’t like the system had actually voted over the last forty years, those who prop it up wouldn’t have amassed such power. The chronic political disengagement of too many Americans has led to perpetual control by too few.
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The biggest problem with poverty in America is the system that produced it. It’s not enough to simply help those in need; we need to stop helping those who are not in need but just want more anyway. They pay millions to sway elections of people who’ll siphon off billions to them.
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I spoke about conscious politics at the Conscious Life Expo... youtube.com/watch?v=_RXgO6…
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The United States does not owe debts which it did not accrue. And paying reparations for slavery would not punish white Americans; quite to the contrary, it would unleash profound blessings on all of us the likes of which only forgiveness can bestow.
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No, not everyone has been wronged with 2 1/2 centuries of slavery followed by another 100 years of institutionalized violence. An educated understanding of history shows that the income gap between blacks & whites today is a clear legacy of slavery, a continued pattern of racism.
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Castro’s comment was very strong, that we compensate people when their property has been taken - so why wouldn’t we compensate people when they themselves were the property? Excellent and powerful point, though “appointing a commission” can sometimes permanently shelve an issue.
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No, reparations do not go country to country. This is not about starting a race war; it’s about ending one — a subtle, insidious, underground war between those who are owed compensation and those who owe it. As a Jew, I can tell you that wronged ancestors cry out for justice.
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There are certainly other oppressed communities such as Native Americans, whose issues are equally important. But they are separate situations presenting different challenges. Here I am talking about #ados marianne2020.com/issues/raci…
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