Candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
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6/ what is the answer now? For Biden to institute quickly & vigorously a massive infusion of economic hope & opportunity into the life of the average American. Nothing short of that will quell the fire & provide a compelling alternative to the seductive lure of the dark magician.
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5/ But now of course, all that rage has turned into a mass psychosis led by a dictatorial leader the likes of which is to be expected by anyone with even a basic awareness of how groups operate. Political officialdom has been arrogantly blind to a fire set right under their noses
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4/ By 2016 a critical mass of Americans realized the economy was rigged against them & cried out in legitimate rage. Only 2 presidential candidates named their pain, however: the authoritarian populist Donald Trump and the progressive populist Bernie Sanders.
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3/For 40 yrs the trend continued. Repubs bought totally into corporate domination of our govt & society, leaving vast millions to suffer; Dems tried to eliminate pain on the periphery but they too refused to challenge underlying corporate forces that made the suffering inevitable
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2/ Starting with Reaganomics in 1980 & continuing for 40 yrs, the majority of Americans were squeezed into the painful confines of a system where economic & social opportunity consistently & increasingly dried up for them so that a tiny few Americans could grow obscenely wealthy
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1/ Large groups of desperate people are a national security risk, whether here or in other corners of the world. They form a petri dish out of which mass societal dysfunction is almost inevitable. This led to the emergence of Hitler in Germany after WW I among other examples.
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The US political elite think only those whose careers have been entrenched for yrs in a system that drove us into this mess are qualified to lead us out of it. In fact they’re the ones least qualified to understand the level of psychological dysfunction mass psychosis represents.
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If Bush and Clinton and Obama had all been talking, it absolutely might’ve made a difference on the midterms.
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Respectfully, why haven’t you been saying this for the last 4 years? I know there’s a tradition of ex-presidents saying nothing but this was a national emergency, anyone could see it would lead to this, and our former presidents remaining so quiet was a betrayal of the people.
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In Nov & again yesterday in Georgia, the American people have done what the US govt would not do: begin to rid our society of the malignant corruption destroying our democracy. This will be a process & it will take a while; and it’s clearly generated & led by the people ourselves
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Elected officials got a taste today of the trauma millions of people experience daily as a direct and indirect result of their policies. Their sense of protection proved to be delusional. I’m very sorry they went through it but I hope it’s an awakening experience for all of them.
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They need to do more than protect the Capitol; they need to protect our democracy...And possibly our world. #ImpeachHimNow
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