Candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
Joined February 2009
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Yes, but then to turn that into political force - electing people who use the levers of power to change what needs to be changed.
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I hope you win too, Betsy. Democrats who stand up for a real progressive vision are the ones who will win this year. Let people see a genuine alternative to a corporatist agenda for the world.
Today: a Democrat who supports M4A WON her primary in Nebraska.
Also today: a Democrat who opposes M4A LOST her special election in California.
#MedicareForAll is not only the sensible health care position, it’s the winning one. Corporate-owned Dems are getting left behind.
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If you disagree with someone, state your own opinion & it’s different than theirs, that doesn’t mean you’re “shaming”
them. Some of us think voting 3rd party is the best way to go; others think we need to vote Biden so Trump doesn’t win. It’s not bad; it’s an important discussion
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People were undereducated about what America has done wrong - it’s true - but also undereducated about what America has done right. We need to love what we’ve done right enough to be brutally honest and self-aware enough as a country to address what we’ve done wrong.
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I continue to believe that the most enlightened societies have both capitalist and socialist elements.
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Employing someone is not inherently exploiting them. There is such a thing as righteous profit when people are paid fairly and are free to set their own terms.
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I recommend an effective government that listens to scientific & medical experts and puts the health & well-being of the American people before dedication to an economic system that has failed, is failing, and if allowed to will continue to fail the higher aspirations of the USA.
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Having run for prez I can tell you it won’t be easy; I spent a year in the belly of the beast myself. But it can be done! Abolition wasn’t easy, Suffrage wasn’t easy & Civil Rights movement wasn’t easy. We need to train & elect serious progressives & get the money out of politics
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I’ve been in the Lefty conversation since before most of the people thanking me into the conversation were born:)
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No you’re not, actually. I know it might feel that way in this moment, but this moment too shall pass...
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He’s right. And it’s ours to decide what that means and where it leads...
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I’m one generation away from poverty and my father never let us forget it. I would be spitting on my father’s grave every day if I didn’t stand to the best of my ability for the things he stood for. “Beat the system, kids. Beat the system.”
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