Candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
Joined February 2009
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You’re describing a fictional world where progressive politicians are not routinely suppressed by a political machine.
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No, to me that’s just an intelligent American. Eisenhower said “the American mind at its best is both conservative and liberal” and I agree with that. But centrists these days tend to water down the best ideas of both.
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What is a centrist at this point if not someone looking at a burning house and thinking that a garden hose might do the job?
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The issue is lower taxes for *who.* And removing safety & health regulations is not progress in business or in life.
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This is enough to make you sick. They wouldn’t tell the Pentagon to wait for more bombers, but they’ll tell hungry children to wait for more food.
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Republicans created a malignant populism because the Democrats refused to create an enlightened one.
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I’m old enough and I’ve read enough history. That’s not about being “adorable,” it’s about having lived and having been educated.
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If Pelosi & Schumer et al continue to treat progressive change agents like undisciplined rowdy children who need to be locked in their rooms while the grownups make their back room deals, then the Democratic Party will lose any moral authority it has left & ‘22 will be a disaster
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Then you and I better start yelling louder and louder and louder. We don’t have a long window because races in ‘22 are just around the corner.
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3/ The election of Biden doesn’t mean the emergency is over. Trump was a symptom, not a cause of the underlying emergency & it is still with us. WH & Congressional Dems will take a quick sharp turn towards economic justice, or fascism will come to America & this time it will stay
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2/ The cruel neglect of masses of people’s survival needs during the pandemic has been a natural extension of how the system had been working even before. Incremental change will not fix this. We need a fundamental disruption of the political & economic status quo.
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1/ Over the last 40 years there has been a massive transfer of wealth into the hands of 1% of Americans. Productivity has gone up but wages have not, as companies have felt justified in ripping off workers as though their lives did not matter.
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