A main weakness of our politics is it underestimates psychological & emotional factors. In fact those elements are massively significant. If we don’t provide huge, truly huge financial relief to average citizens then we could end up dealing with mass hysteria unable to contain

Mar 23, 2020 · 4:41 PM UTC

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Not underestimated - willfully ignored or taken advantage of.
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That's not a weakness; it's a primary component.
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Giving money to The People is an economic stimulus and will help stop civil unrest. #COVID19 #dotherightthing
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Marianne, these are material factors. Starve people and kicked them out of their homes, they will turn tear down the walls of the society that has forsaken them. As they should.
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Counting Days @ohcomeooon
23 Mar 2020
Replying to @TheDailyEdge
Everyone, you HAVE TO call your elected officials. Totally jam up their lines asking for a relief package for American ppl not corporations. Nothing changes if they aren't scared of losing your vote. CALL NOW. Contacts listed here: usa.gov/elected-officials
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Also a slower burning but equally destructive health crisis due to stress.
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Politics is not a Cartesian proof, it requires understanding of and empathy with people outside your usual comfort zone to come along with a political project, a project that must flex as people come along.
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