Candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
Joined February 2009
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In a world where fear exhibits a constant gravitational pull, positivity is not a given - in politics or anywhere else. An effort to disrupt today’s dysfunctional politics - with new language, new possibilities and new priorities - is an antidote to fear and a triumph of love.
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Our ability to take in the horror of what is happening environmentally & summon the courage to do something about it will determine the most critical choice in humanity’s history: whether to continue the journey of evolution or through our own selfishness & greed elect to end it.
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Large groups of desperate people should be seen as a national security risk because desperate people do desperate things. That's why I put the amelioration of unnecessary suffering front & center in my national security agenda. See my Dept. of Peace plan: marianne2020.com/issues/us-d…
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Jay Inslee dropped out of the presidential race today. His contribution was immeasurable, and his departure deepens not only my commitment but I assume the commitment of every candidate to keep the issue of the climate crisis front and center in the campaign.
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Like all other issues confronting us the climate crisis is a moral crisis. Humanity is at a crossroads: we need to choose between a system that allows greed to run rampant over the survival needs of the species, or a state of consciousness where such a thing would be unthinkable.
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You speak to what we need to realize: that the earth will be fine - she just might need to shake us off for 2 or 3 hundred thousand years while she repairs herself. The issue then is to consider the immeasurable amount of human suffering that would accompany that scenario.#actnow
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The entire environmental crisis is like a fire that has been intentionally set. All the more reason to stop setting the fires, and ask ourselves why we continue to acquiesce to a system that allows it. Greed should no longer be allowed to override the concern for our survival.
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The Amazon burning is a reminder of humanity’s pathological irreverence toward the earth, a self-destructive dysfunction from which we will heal or possibly not even survive as a species. This is more than a climate crisis; it is a survival crisis, and it should be seen as such.
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At the Meskwaki Powwow in Iowa...youtube.com/watch?v=95I92P…
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Those with the deepest commitment to love are those who most fully recognize the power of evil. That’s why we keep stressing love: so evil doesn’t have so much room to fester.
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Absolutely I have. But capitalism must have a conscience & that’s the conversation conscious people are having today - even some prominent capitalist leaders. This course correction is long overdue & in some quarters it’s already begun. But we can’t let up on insisting it’s time.
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We need a fundamental disruption of our economic, social & political status quo. We need a non-violent revolution of the heart, a fierce repudiation of a heartless economic & political reality that has had its way with us for far too long & should have its way no longer.#bigtruth
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It’s not enough to reduce people’s suffering; we must challenge the underlying forces that make all that suffering inevitable. This will not be done by a political class tied to those forces in an unholy $ alliance, no matter how well-intentioned the individuals within it may be.
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Unfettered capitalism, disconnected from a sense of moral & ethical responsibility to people & planet, has done & continues to do immeasurable damage. It will only be changed by an awakening of We the People. The political establishment that enabled the trend will not reverse it.
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Americans aren’t weary because we’re doing too much; we’re weary because we’re not doing enough important things. We’re not a people attuned to incremental changes. We’re attuned to moon shots: Green New Deal, Depts. of Children & Peace, healing the past, creating a moral economy
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Glad to see California, carmakers, holding firm resisting Trump plan to roll back auto emission standards. We’re going forward; we’re not going backwards. google.com/amp/s/www.latimes…
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Thank you so much @BetteMidler. I deeply appreciate the support.
I think she needs to be in the conversation. She says things no other candidate says, things we need to hear.
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