Candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
Joined February 2009
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Every public school in America should be a palace of learning, culture and the arts. That would completely revolutionize our society and ultimately our economy.
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There are so many things we could do to bolster strong families and strong communities, yet our government is institutionally averse to putting itself in service to the people. Rather, it puts itself in service to Big Pharma, Big Oil, the NRA, the military industrial complex etc.
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Helping people who are in trouble does not weaken them, it strengthens them. And the stronger people are the more creative and productive they become. Withholding resources from people in need is a passive form of oppression.
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Lincoln said the Civil War was fought so that government “of the people, by the people and for the people ... would not perish from the earth.” Yet it’s perishing now. Today we’ve got a government “of the corporations, by the corporations and for the corporations.” #bailoutpeople
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A basic fundamental problem, seemingly universal among Republicans and covertly present among many Democrats, is an ideological aversion to the idea that governmental resources should be used to help people.
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People have become too used to being abused. Congress bailed out corporations but it did not bail out people. The best way to get the economy going is not by sending people into dangerous situations, but by sending people the money they need in order to survive. #directcashrelief
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I think the people are definitely ready...but both parties demonize the left at this point. It should have a home in the Democratic Party -it used to- but it’s becoming harder & harder for progressives to succeed there.
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I couldn’t agree more. Progressives have been invisiblized, even purged by the party. Many progressives feel politically homeless now. Vote for Biden, yes. But the question is “Then what?” Stay & fight, or form new party? Many living that question now.
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Not inherently. It’s unfettered capitalism - what happens when capitalism becomes disconnected from moral or ethical consideration for planet or people. Traditionally we pushed back against overreach by capitalism, but starting with Reagan in 80s we began an orgy of deregulation
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.@ACLU please school us on how people should counter intimidation at the polls. What might we expect? What should we say and not say? Will you have a hotline with a team of lawyers to advise? Please make a video and explain what we’ll need to know. google.com/amp/s/thehill.com…
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