Candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
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It made it boom for a very very small group of people. It did not create a boom for anywhere near the majority of people, and it’s been proven that it will never pay for itself. Lower unemployment that includes survival wage jobs & jobs that people need 2 or 3 of, is not success.
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Everybody says how divided the country is, but there’s a way in which the two political parties aren’t divided *enough.* Where they disagree isn’t as much of a problem as where they agree: no structural reform, no fundamental unrigging of an unjust economy.
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Actually that’s the irony of this country; that it was. But out of the 56 signers of the Dec of Ind, 41 were slaveowners. So obviously we’ve never fully embodied those principles, but all the great social justice movement were efforts to get there (and longer ago than 100 years).
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You can’t be a democracy and an oligarchy at the same time. Either the country belongs to all of us or the country belongs only to a few of us. This is the deepest existential question about who we are and who we want to be.
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Biden & Harris won’t override the decision of the parliamentarian on the $15/hr minimum wage hike, saying they’re disappointed but that they respect it. Better they should respect the right of everyone who works 40 hours a week to make a living wage. For 900,000 people it matters
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Jared Kushner must be pleased. prospect.org/world/business-…
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This is really excellent.
Students from 52 U.S. law schools boycott Chevron law firm @Sewkis for "unethical" prosecution of me after I helped win Ecuador pollution judgment.
Talent pipeline for law firms that protect oil polluters appears to be running dry.
donzigerdefense.com/article-…
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I would still vote for him again. And he’s still infinitely better than a second Trump term.
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With the overriding need to get rid of a neofascist would-be dictator, we hoped the centrist Democrat in question would be as progressive as the Dem platform suggested he might be. Everyone has their own point at which they’re ready to shout loudly that he’s not. My point is now.
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It’s not just meaningless and symbolic, because it does help millions of people. In that sense the benefit is not to be underestimated. But it doesn’t of itself interrupt the basic trajectory of oligarchy. The Republicans started it but the Democrats still haven’t stopped it.
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FDR didn’t just rescue people; he brought structural change to the system so people wouldn’t fall back into the same economic pits. It’s going to take more than his painting over the mantlepiece to make the comparison real.
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