Candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
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2/ What does it mean to love with conviction? It means 12,000 kids starving every day is unacceptable. You won’t stand for it. 13 million children going to school in the US hungry every day is unacceptable. You won’t stand for it. It means standing for a humanitarian bottom line
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1/ Many more people in this world love than hate. But those who hate, hate with conviction. And conviction is a force multiplier. Those of us who love need to start loving with as much conviction as is displayed by those who hate.
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You’re naming something very important. We keep talking about how people have mental health issues, when the real mental health issue is the way we order our society in a way that makes it so easy for a few to prosper and so difficult for many to survive.
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I supported UBI throughout my campaign. My Whole Health Plan called for a sliding scale public option, but because of Covid I feel M4A now necessary.
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Universal healthcare. Every public school a palace of culture, learning and the arts. Access to higher education. Removal of college loan debt. Not even all that complicated. Just a fundamental change in priorities.
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The quicker we get about the business of helping more people actualize their potential, the quicker the world will repair itself. (This is not just something “nice” that we should do “incrementally;” it’s something urgently necessary that we should do massively and immediately.)
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Only because the political establishment suppresses the conversation out of which it would emerge.
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We could have a WPA public works project much like FDR created. Essentially what the New Green Deal would be.
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How do you think we’re going to just “let it die?” Couldn’t we just start with regulating and taxing it properly? What is the alternative – to storm the Bastille? That would only bring a fascist blowback. Not the result we would have in mind.
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THAT is a source of the problem. Ivan Boesky famously said in the 1980’s: “Greed is good.” We’ve been in trouble ever since. But not every rich person is a greedy bastard any more than every poor person is noble and pure.
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Nope. During the 1950s we had far more regulation and a far more abundant economy for the middle class.
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The only way for capitalism to survive is if more people who are capitalists access their conscience, and more people with conscience get access to capital. #repairamerica
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Thank you. But stimulus in the hands of actual people is money that goes back into circulation. Rent money, purchases etc. How is bailing out huge corporations real stimulus if they’re not required to pay their workers?
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I definitely do not think every problem is solved with money! But many unnecessary problems are created when we do not have money. During a pandemic, what’s immoral is endangering other people’s’ lives.
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