Candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
Joined February 2009
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We were never a perfect democracy, but there was a time when there was a social agreement that we should at least try. And that’s a very big thing. Cynicism is just an excuse for not helping.
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What do we want? We want everything. We want a government “of, but and for the people.” We want a government that serves the well-being of its people before the short-term profits of huge multinational corporations. We want liberty and justice for all. We want our democracy back.
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Do it for a day. Rest your brain (Harry Potter has a lot of wisdom in it!) and then get back to the work at hand. Our democracy is in danger and nobody gets to rest for too long.
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At a time when so many are experiencing Depression era levels of economic despair, instead of issuing an executive order to alleviate any of that he issues an order to build a sculpture garden. He’s focusing on statues of dead people instead of the well-being of those now living.
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2/ Spend five minutes every day visualizing a world without war. A world without poverty. A world without hunger. All beings free. The earth repaired. Allow your mind to build on & embellish. Those minutes won’t be idle fantasy; they’ll be a creative use of the power of the mind.
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1/ Imagination is the womb out of which emerges all manifestation. Everything that occurs in the world, occurs first within our minds. In order to make our material realities more powerful, we need to more powerfully commit to our visions - political as well as personal.
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But the question is how many of them might have, if they had been given a proper education and the kind of opportunity that would allow them to actualize their full talents.
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The flaw in that argument is the suggestion that the rich work harder than the poor do. There is no reason in the world to assume that someone with a white-collar cushy job trading numbers on Wall Street is working harder than is a construction worker or waiter in a restaurant.
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All of which is because of the undue influence of $ on our politics. Once SCOTUS ruled money is free speech, then w/ Citizens United ruled that corporations can spend an unlimited amount to influence elections, we became a system of legalized bribery. We need #moneyoutofpolitics
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Right. So the Iraq war didn’t really matter; only millions died. Drastically cutting taxes for the very rich didn’t matter; it only created the biggest wealth inequality in 100 years. Wow. It’s the luxury of the privileged to think “innovation” is the answer.
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Two things change the world: vision and politics. With vision we should never compromise, whereas politics is the art of compromise. Too many people have it the other way around: they're too willing to compromise with their vision and become intransigent with their politics.
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That's ridiculous. No side of the political spectrum has a monopoly on values. High-minded principles on both Left and Right have a concern for the human condition at their core.
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It was immoral, for instance, to invade a country that had nothing to do with 9/11 and which - even if they'd had weapons of mass destruction, which they didn't - would have been no different in that respect than half the countries we do business with every day.
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