Difficult to face but at the same time important that we do: the system wasn't set up to take care of people when this happened because it wasn't set up to take care of people BEFORE this happened. For years it's existed mainly to protect & take care of only sector of our society
11
93
4
504
It's important that we see this because if we don't, the system will be like elastic: it will simply go back to its old way of functioning - or worse- when this is over. We need to demand a fundamental break from the social, economic and political trajectories of the last 40 yrs.
10
28
1
171
So yes, we must vote blue! But it has to be more than that. The "blue candidate" needs to know that just not being the other guy is not enough. We need to more than manage suffering. We need a fundamental challenge to the systemic injustices that made so much suffering inevitable
14
14
1
170
BS voting Blue is what created this mess, we need to stop voting for people or parties & DEMAND POLICIES, for instance, as crazy a tea party folks are they are good on anti-war, civil liberties & anti-drug war, let's stop left/right BS I focus on POLICIES NOT PEOPLE
1
6
Replying to @sammad381
I understand that as a larger concept, but I can’t go there when Donald Trump is the alternative. That’s a large part of how we got here. And for years too many of us have not been showing up for progressive democratic candidates though we could have. We let a lot of this happen.

Mar 29, 2020 · 6:34 PM UTC

2
2
5
Replying to @marwilliamson
Thanks, but Joe Biden is worse than @realDonaldTrump & #DNC is literally rigging the primaries in every way so it is not the voters fault, progressives would be better off running as republicans because their primaries are less rigged, #Trump was democrat but switched 2 win
2
3
No one knows better than I how they do exactly what you said. But I also saw how easily people are duped. Also over the last couple of decades a lot of people who are screaming now were doing nothing to help the progressive movement. Trump getting a 2nd term would be catastrophic
2
1
8
more replies
Replying to @marwilliamson @cupcake_days @sammad381
Write & email your Congressperson. Support Progressive candidates with $. Otherwise, it's just the "same old same old" Nothing will change with more money going to big corporations & ordinary people continuing to suffer.
1
1