Candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
Joined February 2009
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“We’re gonna do so much” turned into “There’s nothing much I can do” pretty quickly. So weird to start out as Roosevelt and then morph into Hoover.
Isn’t that going backwards?
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For every Democrat who says Biden would do more to help people but his hands are tied, there’s a GOP strategist saying “Yes please keep saying that!”
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If there’s a red wave in November it won’t be because the majority of Americans believe the Republicans will actually help them. It will be because of the rage people feel that the Democrats haven’t.
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An economic system should exist to serve the people, people shouldn’t exist to serve an economic system.
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This isn’t about government “run” healthcare. This is about how things get paid for, not about how things get run.
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All advanced democracies in the world have universal healthcare except us. Hundreds of thousands of Americans die every year because of inadequate healthcare & for one reason only: the greed of the private insurance industry & the willingness of our political system to play ball.
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Ridiculous. Is it “lacking in economic seriousness” for kids to go to high school? Or to a park? Or to a library? Or to drive on the roads?
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Talked with a German cousin last night about how every citizen there gets full healthcare and free education through college or tech school. It’s just their normal.
She said “ I don’t understand why people in America say ‘socialism’ like it’s an insult.”
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A great course correction. We can do it here too.
Colombia just elected its first leftist President in the country’s history.
Chile just drafted a constitution that establishes a national health service and free education at every level.
Ecuadorians are mobilizing in the thousands to prevent privatizations.
This is hope.
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First of all it’s not just dumping $1T into the economy; it’s money to be disbursed over 20 years. Closing the economic gap between blacks and whites would expand the economy by $1.5T
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Today I would say $1T. It was an important moment for me because the debate was in Detroit. I knew what Detroiters had shown me when I lived there, and I knew I would never forgive myself if I didn’t make the argument for reparations on the stage that night.
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If only.
By cutting Pentagon spending by $100B, the People Over Pentagon Act would return military spending to pre-Trump levels.
jacobin.com/2022/06/defense-…
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People die so that private health insurance companies can live.
Shouldn’t it be the other way around? theguardian.com/us-news/2022…
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