Candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
Joined February 2009
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I don’t think any socioeconomic group has a monopoly on values. Not every rich person is a greedy bastard anymore than every poor person is noble and pure. We need to assume the best about each other now. A mass awakening is rising up from everywhere.
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Congressional hearings with Tech co. CEO's today very important; anti-trust issues might not seem sexy but they're everything. Monopoly is the core way unfettered capitalism operates; getting back to anti-trust laws is essential to correcting the problem. simonandschuster.com/books/G…
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Many have fallen from high places, deeply humbled, willing and ready to hear at last words they would've laughed at before. They had hit rock bottom, fallen to their knees and from there they were able to resurrect their lives. That is where America is now.medium.com/@mariannewilliams…
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Yet the fact that it doesn’t have to be that way is dawning on the minds of what will hopefully become a critical mass of people.
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What you’re missing is that even though that would make the economy more abundant for everyone, it would also make the powerless more powerful. That is at least unconsciously unacceptable to their mindset.
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13/ "Even in our sleep pain which cannot forget, falls drop by drop upon the heart, until in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God." - Aeschylus. That is our salvation now. May Americans be forgiven. May America become wise. 🙏🏻
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12/ And from that place, as enough of us in the quiet of our hearts, in the sacred chamber of our own self-reckoning, will fall to our proverbial knees now and admit to ourselves the part our complacency played in the path that brought us here, America will begin to turn around.
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11/ And now it’s time for something many of us haven’t tried before: a humility toward a power higher than our own, atonement in our hearts for distracting ourselves so much from the suffering of others and taking for granted the extraordinary blessings this country has given us.
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10/ I felt for them; their entire framework is falling apart before their eyes. Our problem is a mass psychosis that is immune to the machinations of either law or reason & it has inexplicably checkmated our most esteemed institutions, causing even the smartest among us to quake.
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9/ That’s where America is now. I noticed two men yesterday, smart legal scholars on TV, analyzing the day’s events in Congress. Their eyes looked so sad to me & spoke of something different than what they were saying. “Who are we kidding?” they seemed to say. “We are so fucked.”
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8/ I’ve seen many people in my career who have fallen from high places and found themselves deeply humbled, willing and ready at last to hear words they would’ve laughed at before. They had hit rock bottom, they had fallen to their knees, and from there they were able to rebuild.
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7/ If enough of us allow ourselves the true horror of this moment, which isn’t actually the horror of what’s happening but the even deeper horror of recognizing that we should have known what was happening and fixed what was happening long before now, then we will have a miracle.
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6/ Now I’ll say what will be deemed by the pseudo- intelligencia of our age to be just as silly, as unserious, as they deemed my words before - that there is built into the nature of things, the mind of God by whatever name, a mercy towards us that we haven’t shown toward others.
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5/ For years I’ve said, when people would go on and on about how good things were, that surely that depended on what neighborhood you lived in, what part of the world. Well now we know - because the worst experiences of every neighborhood have come to haunt us all.
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4/ ...but also how much our own complacency both enabled the accumulating madness and prolonged the day of reckoning that inevitably would come. Were we fooled? Oh yes. But were we easily fooled, even willing dupes? Yes again. We were easy prey, even the most intelligent among us
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