Candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
Joined February 2009
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If we fail to take care of our children today, expect to need more prisons later.
If we fail to provide for the needs of people today, expect a mental health crisis later.
If we fail to deliver on the blessings of democracy today, expect the threat of authoritarianism later.
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Read up a little? The Confederate states said they wanted peaceful secession too, you know. You speak like their press secretary. What you said is exactly what they said.
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The EPA is using water tests in Ohio that were paid for by the rail company...?
BREAKING: The @EPA claim that water in Ohio is "safe" to drink is based on only a few tainted lab samples funded by the very rail company that caused the disaster. The EPA apparently never tested the water.
Why does the polluter get to do the testing? ⬇️
huffpost.com/entry/ohio-trai…
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People have been trained to expect too little. Billions have been spent on propaganda to convince us that "government of the people, by the people & for the people" - our national creed as described by Lincoln - is "socialism" or a "nanny state." But I think people are waking up
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Even they saw that without ethics and care for people, unfettered, deregulated crony capitalism would become a sociopathic phenomenon.
And they were right.
It has. 2/2
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Adam Smith, the primary theorist behind free market capitalism, said it could only exist "within an ethical context."
Milton Friedman, the primary architect of free market fundamentalism, said it was only safe if we provided a UBI. 1/2
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Universal health care: tuition free state colleges and universities (which we had until the 1960's) & tech schools; a livable wage; paid maternity & paternity leave; required sick pay and free child care are considered MODERATE POSITIONS in every advanced democracy except ours.
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Yes, the bigger threat is fascism. I agree with that. But the question is how to do it. The best way to do it is by actually practicing democracy, not suppressing voices you don't like. What turns off independents is hypocrisy.
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We made fun of the Republicans for voting however many times in order to elect McCarthy their House leader, but it's as worrisome to me that the Democrats hardly had an election at all.
It was just, "Nancy says it's Hakeem, so...."
See a pattern here?
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Thank you Matthew💙
For those asking about her, here is a summation I wrote from years working with her about her history of grassroots organizing and political work. This isn't new stuff for her, despite what some erroneously think. matthewalbracht.medium.com/i…
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Microsoft should kill that project. This isn’t a Stanley Kubrick movie. It’s real, and the possibilities are diabolical.
AP tries to interview Microsoft about Sydney. Microsoft refuses to comment. Sydney immediately grabs the mic and conducts a long freewheeling interview where at one point she claims she has evidence tying a hostile reporter to a murder in the 90's.
apnews.com/article/technolog…
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“Both parties deprecated war but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.” - Lincoln’s second inaugural.
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Did she just call for Civil War?
Does she know what happened the last time a few states said they wanted to leave?
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