Candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
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1/ The 2017 $2 trillion tax cut gave $.83 of every dollar to the richest corporations and individuals. By definition it’s prejudiced against the young because most young people have not created the kind of wealth that enables them to take advantage of those kinds of cuts.
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This is outrageous. Start with publicly funded healthcare & higher education to help people get into the game. Those are core elements of a new economics, helping people thrive and spurring the creation of wealth among those now left out of the system. newsweek.com/millennials-con…
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That’s a systemic problem that goes beyond Trump. Once you’re in the club in America, the system is very compassionate. You can win or lose and still stand a good chance of continuing to operate, starting over etc. Others are denied the same economic grace periods & buffers.
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First, the eyes of the electorate need to be opened to how easily duped we are. A Jacinda Adern here would be cast as “extreme left” by the neoliberal establishment. A lot of people wouldn’t vote for her because they’d be convinced she’s “unelectable.”
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Exactly. Corporate conglomerates, whether Media or agriculture or tech etc, are an aristocratic interest even more dangerous than govt because they can’t be voted out. Anti-trust laws underused because their $ controls Congress. See: Telecom Act 1996, and Hate Inc by Matt Taibbi
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A primary factor that has created & maintained systemic economic injustice over the last 40 years has been a message given to many American women that they shouldn’t weigh in on certain issues because “You just don’t understand economics.”
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Of course. Many economists are women! But for the average woman to express her opinion about economic priorities is often to risk ridicule based on the idea that she has to be an economist to weigh in. It’s a way to shut out voices that put humanitarian before economic priorities
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According to Gandhi, “The idea that economics is a verifiable science is one of the greatest evils ever foisted on the human mind.”
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I agree with her here: google.com/amp/s/www.indepen…
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Thanks. What I said was that for tens of millions of people the social conditions of poverty & hunger - yes at Great Depression levels -are already there. It doesn’t have to be a mass societal reality (thank God it’s not) to be that horrible for those people who are struggling.
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Too many on the right have simply handed over the country to corporate interests; too many of the left try to ameliorate the pain that causes but won't challenge the underlying forces that make all the suffering inevitable. This book explains why... penguinrandomhouse.com/books…
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The president said today that if he had listened to the scientists, America today would be in a Great Depression. He apparently doesn’t realize that for tens of millions of Americans we already are.
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Most of us in this conversation agree on that. And if our democracy itself was fixed that would go along way towards achieving it.
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