Candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
Joined February 2009
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You think the Constitution gives them the right to do what they did yesterday? Very strange reading of the Constitution.
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No, people who storm a state capitol with assault weapons, frightening everyone around them,are not best described as “good people.” And no the governor should not “make a deal with them.” We don’t negotiate with terrorists... remember? businessinsider.com/trump-pr…
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Our democratic laws and traditions. That’s the whole point of a representative govt: That the will of the people, not short term corporate profit, should drive public policy. Democracy is the opposite of fascism.
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We’re not just a little bit off; we are really, really far off from ordering our society along principles of sustainability, compassion or even sanity. We regularly sacrifice the good of our people and planet at an altar of delusional economic theory. This is bad but it’s fixable
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The news is unbelievable, and it’s not even noon where I am yet. thehill.com/homenews/state-w…
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Uh, actually I’m not. I’m advocating for the government to show up for its people at a time of national emergency.
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Yeah ... like roads, the Weather Service, child protection services (such as they are), national parks, and so forth. You might want to read up on what the government actually does.
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This pretty much covers it: “...insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of ...”
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In the ‘80’s and 90’s mainly. Big Pharma for instance spent $280M lobbying Congress last year. Companies don’t spend that kind of money expecting nothing in return.
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Yes! If government pays for military equipment to fight a war, it makes sense for government to pay for drugs and medical supplies to fight a pandemic.
A new @ewarren and @janschakowsky bill would allow the government to manufacture drugs and medical supplies. Our polling shows this is a wildly popular idea, even when voters hear arguments against it. dataforprogress.org/blog/4/3…
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I support the strike. It’s insane that people are having to strike in order to increase the chances of their survival. #MayDay businessinsider.com/amazon-w…
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I just spit out my coffee.
The president's re-election campaign has ordered red, Trump-branded face masks for supporters. Campaign officials have discussed giving away the masks at events or in return for donations.
w/ @KThomasDC: wsj.com/articles/trump-makes…
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This is like the part on the Titanic where the rich people went downstairs and locked the doors in steerage so the poor people couldn’t get out. Isn’t there a general consensus that that was the wrong thing to do...?pbs.org/newshour/economy/wor…
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When I was running for president I experienced American voters as deeply intelligent. It’s the machinations of our political parties, among other things, that stands in the way of the will of the people expressing itself. Our democracy is in shambles and we need to restore it.
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2/ I think the most enlightened societies have elements of both capitalism and socialism. But none of that is possible until we get the money out of politics. Our government has become little more than a handmaiden to huge corporate forces and that has got to change.
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1/I don’t agree. I’m old enough to remember when the change occurred. It was in the 1980s that American capitalism began to divorce itself from ethical and moral concern for people and planet. I believe there’s such a thing as an enlightened capitalism but it better get here fast
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