Candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
Joined February 2009
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Thank you, but I don’t want you to feel that way. If any campaign furthers the conversation even an inch then there was a success of some kind. Keep at it babe...
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Show me one instance in my 37-year career where I either said anything or wrote anything about “the healing power of crystals.”
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But I wasn’t and I’m not. No vilification or mischaracterization can change that fact, and I will no longer ignore the diss.Those who took the time to read my positions saw that mine were more serious than quite a few of the other candidates. mariannenow.com/issues
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3/ Poverty rampant among farmers & suicide rate higher than average. Farmland controlled by corporate leaders who never even walked the land; 30M acres held by foreign investors. Repubs have duped our farmers and too often Dems have ignored them. Definitely support @JDScholten!
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2/ Starting in the 1980’a the corporatization of agriculture - Big Ag - began its treacherous rampage across the rural heartland. Corporate conglomerates turned farmers into serfs on their own land, destroying topsoil and destroying lives.
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1/ The betrayal of rural America, particularly the American farmer, began in the 1980s. Before then, local banks worked to support a farmer through a bad yield year, and generous government loans often came with grants for rural communities.
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You’re forgetting there are millions of wonderful people there who are apalled by what’s happening in their state and have no power over it. A few of them are my own friends and relatives.
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Now you’re not even having a serious conversation. I’m not asking for patience. We need fundamental change and I’ve made that clear. I never argued for incrementalism, nor for naïveté in the face of those who would oppress.
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I know about the legacies of those movements. But look at their successes. Was there terrible resistance to them all, even murder of those involved? Yes. I’m not naïve. But it’s our turn to be as courageous as they were; to minimize their successes is disingenuous & disrespectful
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Trans Americans represent a relatively new civil rights frontier, in which we’re challenged to remember our commitment: that all people are created equal and that the rights of all Americans, regardless of sex or sexuality, must be treated equally by the law.
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What do you think the Civil War was? Or the Women’s Suffragette movement was? Or the civil rights movement was? Or the labor movement? Or child labor laws? Or the marriage equality movement was? Do you think all this stuff just started with us? Or that others made no strides??
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