Candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
Joined February 2009
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1/ Many people are saying “I want to go back to work” who are actually just saying they want to eat, feed their children and pay their bills. What kind of (rich) country tells its citizens to make a choice between risking their lives or risking hunger for their families.
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Every school in America should be a palace of learning, culture and the arts. The way to have an amazing economy 20 years from now is to take better care of our 10-year-olds today. This is not something we can’t do; it’s just something we haven’t chosen to do. #Wecanchooseagain
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News shows interview you when you’re a candidate. Once you’re not a candidate, your voice by definition gets less exposure. That’s the reason to support candidates in the first place.
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No one should have to involuntarily risk their life in order to go to work. What do we pay taxes for if not to protect people at such a time as this? Our government gave trillions in tax breaks to those who don’t need it, yet now will give so little to people who need it badly.
Increase in unemployment from February to March:
🇪🇺 EU: 0.1%
🇩🇰 Denmark: 0.2%
🇩🇪 Germany: 0.7%
🇺🇸 United States: 11.5%
Newly uninsured people:
🇪🇺 0
🇩🇰 0
🇩🇪 0
🇺🇸 12,700,000
Solution: Guarantee paychecks to workers and health care to all. washingtonpost.com/world/eur…
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From dangers of pandemics to nuclear weapons to weather catastrophes, it’s like the universe is saying “Y’all ready to grow up now?” The question right now isn’t so much what we need to do but rather who we’re willing to become. If it’s yes to the latter the former will be clear.
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The mindset of the 20th-C was different than that of the 19th, & the mindset of the 21st-C is different than that of the 20th. Covid takes us kicking & screaming into a new & different worldview, in which we recognize that only if we take care of each other will any of us be safe
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Remember though, it says we’re sent INTO the illusion in order to be the presence of the alternative.
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Overall, history IS on our side; over time we tend to self-correct. Right now it’s the history of the last 40 years that we have to buck.
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Abolition. Women’s suffrage. The New Deal. The civil rights movement. It’s not like former generations were a bunch of idiots and never rose to the occasion. It’s simply our turn.
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3/ America has historically responded to our worst deviations from conscience with periods of self-correction. We responded to slavery with abolition, oppression of women with suffrage & institutionalized white supremacy with the civil rights movement. So we will respond to this.
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2/ Yet even here, in the depth of revulsion one feels at our official heartlessness toward health care workers, children and so many of our most vulnerable, there lies the seed of a new American beginning. It’s when we see how off-track we are that we’re most inspired to change.
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