Candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
Joined February 2009
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When Big Pharma & Big Oil etc are literally spending hundreds of millions of dollars every year on lobbying efforts, the well-being of the average American citizen becomes a more & more peripheralized concern to policy-makers. That’s where the darkness lies. It isn’t even covert.
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The system has been trending in an abusive direction for the last 40 years, however. He is as much symptom as cause.
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Supporting candidates. Being involved in their campaigns. Getting involved in local politics. We simply have to go on 💖
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.@BetsySweetME did not win her Dem primary but she articulated the ideals & ideas that will transform this country. Dennis Kucinich told me every campaign has a win of some kind & I think it’s true. Forging the right conversation is a political success. Bravo Betsy. You did that.
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Many people remain in abusive relationships because the abuse becomes normalized; they become blind to it or they see no way out. So they acquiesce. Understanding that psychological dynamic is key to understanding what is happening in America today.
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If we had early on given direct cash relief to people so that they could just stay home, the numbers on Covid would be much lower and we would be opening up now safely. That IS the way to save the economy!
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What you’re arguing is trickle down economics: that if we give more money to the richest that they will create jobs. It was supposed to lift all boats but it didn’t. It destroyed our middle class. It’s when taxes on the richest were much higher that we had a thriving middle class
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MSM not talking about it doesn’t mean the suffering isn’t there. Millions right now are being evicted from their homes, live in abject fear of being evicted & don’t know how they’re going to feed their kids next week. It’s obscene & unnecessary. We need #DirectCashRelief
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I can see your point. I didn’t think the New York Times editor should have to resign over the article, and I thought the new “rules” put out by the next editor were ridiculous.
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It’s not that the people are bad. Not every rich person is a greedy bastard. That’s not what’s going on here. It’s the system which is corrupted, making it far too easy for those who have a lot to make more & too difficult for those who do not have anything at all to even survive
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I’m very happy for you. But your situation does not change the circumstances of millions of people in the US who are economically locked into situations where sheer survival is far too difficult, in a way that should not be happening in the richest country in the world.
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Economics is a moral issue. 2017 $2 trillion tax cut gave 86c of every $ to the richest, continuing the massive transfer of wealth - polite words for theft - that causes so much suffering in America today. Wealth inequality is responsible for the kind of despair that kills people
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