Candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
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Look, it’s condescending bullshit but without intelligence. Read the second sentence and tell me it’s pro-empire.
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Yep. Our economic thinking is completely upside down. Instead of asking “what it would cost,” we should be asking what it costs to keep all that money out of circulation.
Your daily reminder that cancelling student debt would have one of the largest bottom-up stimulus effects in American history. $1.8 trillion, currently going to loan servicers, would suddenly go toward housing, food and local businesses.
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Extremely. But as with many things in the United States today, unless we’re willing to radically re-imagine it we’re on a path to ever greater disaster.
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We need to deconstruct our law enforcement system in America and build it again starting on a completely different set of values.
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If China takes over America, it won’t be because of their military. A country that has 22,000 miles of high-speed rail and another 22,000 miles under construction while we have none of the above is beating us on far more important levels.
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$.54 of every $ is spent on defense-related activity. Main political justification for defense expenditure is defense industry creates so many jobs. But $ invested in education & infrastructure actually brings a greater ROI. We can transition from a war economy to a peace economy
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Ending slavery did not end racism, women gaining suffrage did not end misogyny, and no longer colonizing countries did not end the attitude of corporate colonization. Whereas the work of other generations was to eradicate symptoms the main work of ours is to rout out their cause.
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The issue of our $713B defense budget is not just how much of it is money that could’ve been spent at home in ways that make life better for Americans; it’s how much of it is money spent abroad in ways that make life worse for people elsewhere.
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