Candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
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Of course our law enforcement system tries, and they should have a lot more funding for it. But the effort goes on no matter who is president.
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No side of the political spectrum has a monopoly on either kindness or mean-spiritedness. There are saints and jerks everywhere.
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If compassion & mercy should guide our personal lives, then compassion and mercy should guide public policy too. This isn’t a lack of intelligent perspective on how we should collectively behave; it’s the intelligence of the ages & the only survivable option for the 21st-century.
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That coordination did not occur. As a result, medical personnel and first responders were left to make heroic efforts far more burdensome than they should have had to - sometimes even at the sacrifice of their own lives - because of a lack of that federal response.
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Just as wars are fought by coordinating a huge array of military and organizational skills, a war against Covid could have been fought by coordinating a huge array of scientific, medical, governmental and organizational skills.
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Your respectful tone makes me listen to you, but we have totally lacked a coordinated federal response to Covid. How is that me overreaching?
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There actually is. Fighting a war takes a coordinated response that brings together an array of military skill sets. That’s exactly what we should’ve done to fight Covid: bring together scientific, medical and organizational skills in a coordinated response at the highest levels.
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Really? Do you know how many millions are facing eviction & hunger now? Our Covid response has mainly been Wall Street bail out, not Main Street bailout. We’ve left doctors, nurses & first responders to do work they wouldn’t have had to do had the govt fought the disease early.
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Because the defense budget makes billions of dollars for defense contractors, whereas a federally coordinated response to Covid would have overridden the demands of the marketplace to answer the demands of a humanitarian emergency; that is ideological anathema to Trump & Kushner.
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Because it is an historic fact that some of the worst atrocities in the world began with outrageously ridiculous stories.
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The U.S. spends 760 billion military dollars a year to make sure we could fight an enemy, but this year an enemy came and we didn’t fight it at all.
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