“She seems to be one of the few of all the candidates that has an interest in representing the working class, especially among Democrats.” #Marianne2024 time.com/6282695/marianne-wi…

This thread pretty much says it all.

Thanks. It will change if the people decide to change it. People are often made to believe that something isn't possible that is absolutely possible, if they make it so.

So you don’t mind that Congress is a system of legalized bribery?

The US government has broken faith with the American people, breaking the social contract that has been the pillar of our greatness: that this country belongs to its people, with a government that is the advocate of their good and protector of that ownership. Today, for all intents and purposes this country belongs to huge corporate entities, our government effectively their advocate more than our own. This is not a small problem that can be fixed with incremental solutions. It is a huge fundamental problem that can only be fixed by a massive political awakening on the part of the American people who, realizing they have been played, demand nothing less than fundamental economic reform. #marianne2024

Sometimes it’s when someone has left the earth that you get the clearest vision of what they gave while they were with us. Tina Turner laid it down so profoundly while she was here, may she be just as powerfully lifted up where she is now.

“Biden’s war” is an interesting concept. Are you assuming that if we did not support Ukraine, there would be no more war? Is that your “anti-war” position? I think it’s a very *pro-war* position: a war in which Russia brutally squashes Ukraine out of existence. There is no moral high ground there, nor is there a consistent anti-imperialism if it’s only ours that we’re against.

What is my “anti-vaxx history?” There isn’t one.

You just proved my point.

My thoughts on Uvalde, one year later.

I don’t demonize capitalism. I know about the upside of the free market, but what we have today for the vast majority of people is not that. Adam Smith, the primary architect of free market capitalism, said free market capitalism “cannot exist outside an ethical context.” Trickle down economics has shaken capitalism from its moral center. There is no ethical context to unfettered, unregulated capitalism. It permits and even legitimizes an overreach by capital so profound that it is based more on exploitation than on righteous profit. That’s why we’re in the middle of a second Gilded Age. Other generations fixed it when that happened before (the New Deal, the labor movement), and now it’s our turn.

I used to think that too, but it doesn’t work that way. Medicaid is given through block grants, and states can withhold the money and services from the people for whom it’s intended. Incredibly, many do. Universal healthcare would not be “managed” by the government. It would be government funded, but not government run.

I used to think that too, but it doesn’t work that way. Medicaid is given through block grants, and states can withhold the money and services from the people for whom it’s intended. Incredibly, many do. Universal healthcare would not be “managed” by the government. It would be government funded, but not government run.

A Democrat will win in 2024 by telling the forces of economic royalism to get the hell out.

Here are the contents of AN ECONOMIC BILL OF RIGHTS: A Vision for a Moral Economy marianne2024.com/economic-bi…