Candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
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Sandy Fisher
According to several prominent economists, the economy isn’t doing so bad. The fact that tens of millions of people are living in chronic despair & trauma, & 81,000 opioid overdoses occurred last year alone, apparently doesn’t impact that. Only a sociopath sees this as acceptable
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3/ No pol should tell us they understand there’s a mental health crisis & they really want to help. What they need is to recognize how many govt policies are so borderline cruel as to make it less and less possible for millions of people to hold on. Those policies ARE the crisis.
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2/ But if someone says they want to help you but then they start dispensing what you need to survive in the smallest drip drip drip, going on endlessly about how they might do this or that but it might take a few years but then again they might not do it, it’s even more painful.
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1/ If someone’s whole thing is to deny you your good, it’s a situation you come to understand and expect and you get your hope and adrenaline from trying to fight it.
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A $15 minimum wage would lift almost a million people out of poverty. There is something cruel about the fact that it’s even open for discussion.
A $15 min wage would cut 1.4 million jobs and remove 900,000 people from poverty.
How could losing jobs eliminate poverty?
Those "lost" jobs are actually 2nd jobs needed to make ends meet. 1 good job at $15/hour is better than 2 bad ones at $7.25/hour
nbcnews.com/politics/joe-bid…
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Joshua at NPV is wonderful. I enjoyed talking to him in a wide-ranging interview. Thank you, Joshua.
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“A year of COVID confinement plus the last 4 years of Trump chaos affected us in ways that aren't quite obvious yet. No person & no country can experience the compounded traumas of the last chapter of our history & come out on the other side of it the same people we were before.”
Building back better | Opinion newsweek.com/building-back-b…
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3/ No successful social justice movement in the history of the U.S. has apologized for or failed to acknowledge the prophetic legacy of a spiritual call to repair the world. Fundamentalist materialism as well as neoliberal attachment to money & power blocks the way to liberation.
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2/ A strictly materialist analysis of politics and history, however correct on an external level, will not be enough to produce the kind of historical change that rides on the wings of the prophetic call m: “Justice, justice, thou shall pursue justice.”
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1/ An embrace of the moral dimension produces a fire in the soul which alone has power enough to override forces of greed and collective sadism.
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There were ACTUAL proposals last time. marianne2020.com/issues
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