Candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
Joined February 2009
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The difference between neoliberal GOP and neoliberal Dems is that Republican say if the market is hurting you, too bad. Neoliberal Dems say if the market is hurting you, we’ll do what we can to help you as long as it doesn’t upset the market too much. Both sacrifice the people.
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It’s not a lie, it’s just a difference in ideology. 4 companies should not have been able to monopolize the market to begin with, foreign distribution of baby formula in the US shouldn’t have been blocked to begin with & the govt should’ve acted immediately to correct the problem
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They’ll do those things through legislative action if we don’t present a seriously contrasting vision.
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My God.
Pete Buttigieg: Hungry Babies, Regrettably, Are Just the Price of the Free Market jacobinmag.com/2022/05/pete-…
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Simpatico souls.
In a fortnight @marwilliamson and I have our first ever conversation - so I am reading this book👇🏼 - and discovering surprising similarities, indeed, mutualities between our respective arguments and aspirations
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The majority of people in America would need a 70% pay raise to make a living wage, 31 million people lack healthcare & the planet is dying. Those are emergencies to anyone not blinded by neoliberalism. 2/2
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I agree with you on that. The difference in our viewpoint has to do with what we consider an emergency. Of course people said FDR was a dictator but he did what he had to do to bring us out of the Depression. 1/2
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They’ve convinced you that for the government to use its power to temporarily override the basic tenets of capitalism even in an emergency is dictatorship. “Sure, let people die; it’s okay as long as the free market continues to reign.” The real dictator there is corporate power.
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Because protecting the basic tenets of the free market is more important to him than protecting people and planet or even winning in ‘22.
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The president invoked the Defense Production Act to produce more baby formula. He could also use it to declare a medical emergency and expand Medicare to everyone; declare a climate emergency and build a clean energy grid; and cancel the college loan debt.
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The political dichotomy that's real is not between right and left; it's between a rigged system and the people. We have a set up that makes it easier for those who are already doing very very well to do even better & harder for the vast majority of people to even make it at all.
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