Candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
Joined February 2009
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The GOP creates a nosedive for our democracy, while the Democratic party represents a managed decline. We have to interrupt the corporate dominated trajectory that both of them represent.
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“For a moment the prison walls disappeared. Incredibly bittersweet…” - Stella Moris. Behind the scenes of Julian Assange's maximum-security wedding | 60 Minu... youtube.com/gfpxU8HxKnc via @YouTube
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I'm talking about the society he grew up in and the arc of history he lived through. He wasn't the transition but he lived through it and was influenced by it, leading ultimately to the New Deal.
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I'm reading a biography of FDR at the same time that I'm watching the Gilded Age on Netflix. Fascinating how FDR - and America - transitioned from the first Gilded Age into a progressive era. And we can do it again. History is just repeating itself.
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Making money is a good thing, not a bad thing. The problem in America isn't that some people make good money; it's that far too many people never get a chance to cuz they're locked into a system that keeps them constantly in survival mode with little chance of breaking out of it.
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During the 1970's the average American worker had decent benefits, could afford a home, could afford a car, could afford a yearly vacation and to send their kids to college. The era of trickle down economics starting in 1980's is an aberrational chapter. It began, and it can end.
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The abolitionists didn't give up, the women suffragettes didn't give up, the civil rights movement didn't give up. They prevailed and so will we. This stuff isn't new, it's just come around again.
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Yes. The institutional resistance to righting the fundamental wrong of a rigged economy is very real, but with massive organization and massive votes for change we will override it. It won't be easy but we will.
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Wealth inequality isn't just about money. It's about power inequality, health care inequality, access inequality, educational inequality, opportunity inequality. It creates an economic caste system in a country that is supposedly dedicated to not having one. We need to fix this.
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A wealth tax of 2% on over $50M & another 1% over $1B would never even be felt in the daily lives of those taxed. There is something so warped about trying to protect the wealth of those who already have so much, while voting to crush the opportunities of those who have so little
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My latest substack is a rumination on what it will take to save the world. mariannewilliamson.substack.…
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