Candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
Joined February 2009
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For now. But we have until November to make a difference in the next election, and the day after the election we need to hit the ground running creating a resurgence of progressive power like we haven’t seen in generations.
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Thank you. America is a country that elected Abraham Lincoln our president. So we’re not unintelligent, we just sometimes act like we are. And while what you say about our education system is true, we can change it!
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Traditional politicians think people are so self-interested all they care about is how a particular policy affects them. Visionary politics speaks to the part of you that cares about your country; you’re smart enough to know that what undermines its principles will undermine you.
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3/ The genius of the Right has been to claim the Founders’ vision even while they trampled all over it. The mistake of many on the Left has been to disavow the Founders’ vision even while they sought to preserve it. We can claim the vision without being starry-eyed about the men.
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2/ America’s mission statement: All men are created equal. God gave all men unalienable rights to life, liberty & the pursuit of happiness. Governments are instituted to secure those rights. And when govt’s not doing their job it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it.
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1/ The biggest problem we have is that we keep trying to solve the problem on the level of the symptom rather than addressing the level of cause. The cause is our psychological disconnect from the tenets of the Declaration of Independence.
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The help we need is coming from us. Support progressive candidates in the primaries and vote as if your life depended on it.
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The philosophical shift from “God gave power to the king & aristocracy” to “God gave power to the people” was a social & political earthquake in human history. For too many generations we’ve failed to emotionally connect to the radicalism of the shift & to our need to protect it
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A corporate aristocracy wields unprecedented & undue influence over our govt. Health insurance, Big Pharma, Big Ag, gun manufacturing, food, chemical, oil and gas, defense contracting companies & banks are like old landed gentry & the American people a new brand of economic serf
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I heard the Dalai Lama say we should say all other nations as domestic partners. So we should see environmental degradation as a form of domestic abuse. nytimes.com/interactive/2020…
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Even if we're only speaking in crass political terms, how can the Democrats think all these incremental efforts are going to inspire anyone? It's like trying to sexually seduce someone with new office equipment.
I am voting no on the rule. We have a healthcare crisis yet no expansion of Medicaid or Medicare. FDR didn’t talk about employer retirement accounts. LBJ didn’t talk about voting rights in some precincts. They would have scoffed at Cobra to private companies. Need bold leadership
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3/ Other generations aren’t the issue now; what matters are the choices that we make, in our time. We need to identify the problems left over from from the past, but identify WITH the problem-solvers. There were plenty. Let’s be among them. It's our turn now to re-invent America.
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2/ A visionary politics recognizes that our history has reflected many things - both the most enlightened principles and the most violent trangression against them . Every generation decides for itself what it will feed: the better angels of our nature, or our lowest impulses.
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1/ Some look at American history & only see what we've done right, with no listening whatsoever for the shadows we still need to address. Others however look at our history & only see what we've done wrong, with no listening for what we've done right. Both are unbalanced views.
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