Candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
Joined February 2009
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In the richest country in the world, no one needs to live in poverty; no one needs to be homeless; no one needs to be uneducated; no one needs to be underfed; no one needs to be without healthcare, clean water or healthy food. Every one of those results from bad policy decisions.
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You've done and continue to do an excellent job, Peter. The problem isn't people not realizing what's happening; the problem is institutional resistance to changing things in time. But the consciousness is rising and it IS going to bust a whole in the wall of all that resistance.
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We talk a lot about how to pay for healthcare but far too little about why there's so much more chronic illness in the US than in other countries to begin with. How we have a sickness care rather than a healthcare system, and for reasons like this...theintercept.com/2021/11/01/…
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No one who has read my books or reads my articles today thinks I "put faith in existing power structures." mariannewilliamson.substack.…
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Ah, but it is! In many ways we've reverted to the same aristocratic paradigm we were fighting in 1776, but instead of British landed gentry today it's multi-national corporations.
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If you really wanted to strengthen the economy you would raise the minimum wage, pass Medicare4All, and cancel the college loan debt. If you really wanted to defend our democracy, you'd seriously challenge all these voter suppression efforts all over the country. So what gives..?
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One hundred per cent.
Coalition of 25 organizations including ACLU, Amnesty, Reporters Without Borders and Human Rights Watch
demand an end to proceedings against Julian Assange: 'A threat to press freedom around the globe' #FreeAssangeNOW
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