Candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
Joined February 2009
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Republicans have bought hook, line and sinker into a corporatist mentality; Democrats too often try to ameliorate the pain on the periphery, but still won’t challenge the underlying forces that make all that suffering inevitable.
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It’s not that a sustainable future isn’t possible; the problem is our political system is more an obstruction than a conduit for its emergence. Our job, through accumulated individual efforts, is to create a portal through which a better future might enter despite its resistance
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If you read the article, that’s not what this is about. It’s not about criticizing Biden, it’s about introducing an entirely new paradigm into the equation.
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Despite all evidence to the contrary, I believe in my gut there’s going to be one of those Kairos moments when such a confluence of love and goodness prevail that injustice and oppression are thrown back on their heels.
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So much truth here...
Chris Hedges on the coming revolt against the ruling elites in American society.
youtube.com/watch?v=7z2Gns6G…
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This article is really important. Please read it. washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
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Yet the system will not allow for a $15/hr min wage. Such extreme disparity doesn’t occur because people listed below work harder than everyone else; it occurs because of policies that routinely enable the already rich to get richer, and make it harder for others to even survive.
"$15 an hour is too much"
What billionaires have made in the pandemic
Musk: $19.5 million an hour
Bezos: $9.4M/hour
Zuckerberg: $5.1M/hour
Waltons: $5M/hour
Page & Brin: $4.9M/hour each
Ballmer: $3.4M/hour
Ellison: $3.3M/hour
Gates: $3.2M/hour
Buffett: $3M/hour
Knight $2.9M/hour
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