Candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
Joined February 2009
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We are a representative democracy AND a constitutional republic. It’s like saying a house has windows and also has a door.
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It’s a continuing journey. One generation’s work is to address the externals, another generation’s work is to address the internals as well. If you don’t also address the inner, causal levels of a symptom than the symptom will always morph into a new one.
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Just because we abolished slavery doesn’t mean we’ve yet abolished racism. Just because we’ve given women rights doesn’t mean we’ve yet abolished misogeny. And just because we’re a democracy doesn’t mean we’ve given up the aristocratic prejudices designed to keep the masses down.
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Higher education correlates with higher earning & spending, so providing free tuition is an economic stimulant. A system that claims “It’s too expensive” isn’t just resistant to sharing the money; it’s resistant to sharing the power that goes along with it.
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It’s only mystifying when you forget that they have what amounts to a neoliberal state media constantly blasting out that narrative, think tanks analyzing it with faux seriousness, hundreds of political operatives spinning it, and billions of dollars of dark money supporting it.
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Okay. “Andrea, you know when sometimes that little boy in kindergarten takes all the toys for himself and doesn’t let anybody else play with them? He shouldn’t do that, honey, and you don’t want to ever ever ever be that way OK?”
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In the 1960’s President Johnson waged a War on Poverty. Today we don’t wage a war on poverty; it’s more like we wage a war on the poor.
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The psychological, emotional and economic harm that our government is inflicting on people right now due to their inaction on #DirectCashRelief is going to long outlast the pandemic. We’ll be experiencing the consequences not of the virus, but of their cruelty, for years to come.
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Tuxedo MaskIs he doing all of these things in the final days of his administration just to be snarky and mean, or is it because he’s planning something? It makes me nervous.
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Money in politics is the cancer underlying all the other cancers; getting money out of politics is the greatest moral challenge of our generation. Nothing is more important than that we push for public funding of federal campaigns. The system as it is is irredeemable.
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