Candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
Joined February 2009
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All public policy should be based on one core principle: what would help people thrive. Yet that commonsense prescription for creating peace and prosperity is totally at odds with the principle that our society should be organized by the dictates of short term corporate profits.
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Bad public policy created the problem of wealth inequality in our society today & good public policy can solve it. Repeal the 2017 $2T tax cut, put back in the middle class cut, stop unfair corporate subsidies, lower drug prices, cut excess military spending & tax extreme wealth.
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41 million people live in poverty & 93 million live in near poverty. Those are not just numbers, they’re real people living with serious economic anxiety: what will happen if they or one of their kids get sick, how they’ll send their kids to college or pay off their college loans
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Wealth inequality - 1 % of Americans owning more wealth than the bottom 90% - didn't just happen. It didn't exist like this in the 1970's. Tax policies, corporate subsidies, deregulation and outright give-aways created the greatest mass transfer of wealth in our history.
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Democrats swept Virginia in their election today and Kentucky elected a Democratic Governor. The American people are saying "No" to something that has failed us, and "Yes" to the possibility of another way. Congratulations to those who worked so hard to make it happen.
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All of us can do big things, but none of us alone can do the biggest things. None of us alone can save all the children who need us, but together we can. None of us alone can repair the earth, but together we can. None of us alone can wage peace in the world, but together we can.
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No person should live only for one's self, and no generation should live only for itself. Over the next 12 years we need a World War II level mass mobilization to reverse climate change - a gift to descendants who we will never even know.
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In the words of Thomas Paine, "We have it in our power to begin the world over again.” So do we, if we’re willing to imagine the world as it should be and intentionally work to create it. marianne2020.com/issues/us-d…
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Just as we don’t only take medicine but also need to cultivate health, our national security agenda should include more $ for efforts to proactively cultivate peace. Peace games as well as war games; soul force as well as brute force; a Peace Academy as well as a Military Academy
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Large groups of desperate people are a a national security risk, whether in a US city or in a corner elsewhere in the world. Desperate people do desperate things & are more vulnerable to ideological capture by genuinely psychotic forces. One of the reasons for a US Dept of Peace.
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The ultimate purpose of all human endeavor is to reduce suffering and to uplift the human condition. This is true of our political as well as our personal behavior, and when we realize it then the world will repair itself and peace will prevail. Marianne2020.com
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Humanitarian principles should replace economic principles as society’s bottom line. It will improve both the state of our humanity AND the state of our economy.
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I will be speaking at Scripps earlier in the day! marianne2020.com/events
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Yesterday at Franklin Pierce University in New Hampshire... youtube.com/giucWS8XOzg
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I don’t want to get involved in that kind of negativity towards anyone but particularly towards another woman. Character assassination & smear have no place in our public dialogue. The first place violence needs to end is in our hearts. The lies & insults & shut downs need to end
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Only a politics of conscience will defeat a politics of fear. Only outrageous truthtelling will defeat outrageous lies. Only outrageous love will defeat outrageous hate. Marianne2020.com
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“The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.”
Leviticus 19:34 marianne2020.com/issues/immi…
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