Candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
Joined February 2009
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If Democrats don’t get rid of the filibuster, I don’t see how any amount of voting will return Democrats to the majority in 2022.
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8/ It's like former generations are saying "Over to you." It's our turn now. Happy 4th! Game on.
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7/ Today is Independence Day. Corporate aristocracy today isn't all that different than landed aristocracy in 1776. "Inalienable rights to life, liberty & the pursuit of happiness" needs to *mean something* - but means nothing if the majority of people are economically shackled.
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6/ In the words of the late Supreme Court justice Louis Brandeis, “We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."
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5/ Can we beat it? Yeah. But only by showing up to elect people who realize this happens and are willing to take it on, on every level of government. It will take time but it’s our generational mission to correct this.
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4/ So now corruption is built into the system; our democracy is like a cake that’s laced with arsenic. The most corrupt forces wear the most expensive suits, laughing about their corruption because it’s legal after all and made stockholders a lot of money.
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3/ Since the 1980’s, corruption in the form of “let’s give it all to the rich guys” has been sold as *good for the economy*! And SCOTUS said letting money direct our politics is “free speech.*
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2/ People used to at least give lip service to the fact that things *should not* be corrupt, and someone caught was forced to feel some shame even if they didn't face consequences.
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1/ Someone asked me if “things were always so corrupt.”
Of course there has always been corruption, but what has changed in the last 40 years is that corruption is now legally and socially sanctioned.
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#Chevron now trying @SDonziger in a kangaroo court for bringing a successful judgement against them in Ecuador. They not only poison earth and people, but then punish harshly those who seek to hold them to account.
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According to Ivana he slept with Hitler’s speeches next to his bed. When asked about it by a reporter, he responded “That doesn’t mean I read them.”
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Good article. And these women will NOT be held down.
Salon today - "The empire strikes back: Mainstream Dems try to crush the left in Buffalo and Cleveland" salon.com/2021/07/02/the-emp… @marwilliamson
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I agree with that, Diana. I in no way mean to minimize the issue of the Taliban's treatment of women. washingtonpost.com/news/powe…
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You don’t get to own patriotism, @NikkiHaley. Nothing is more unpatriotic than to label someone who simply doesn’t agree with you as unpatriotic. The whole point of freedom is that we don’t all have to agree here.
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