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
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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.
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We need a human-centered, democratically controlled economy. (Socialism)
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A human-centered, democratically controlled economy doesn't have to be socialist. Capitalism can be that too, if properly regulated and the money removed from politics. The most enlightened society has elements of both capitalism and socialism.
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If we don’t dismantle capitalism, then we will just go through another cycle of fighting like hell to recreate safety nets, then spend decades having them dismantled by the right after people forgot how bad things got.
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Replying to @watsonjr
The issue is regulations that were gutted and corporate money that’s been allowed to flood the system. We need to reinstate proper regulations and get the money out of politics.

Mar 29, 2020 · 8:01 PM UTC

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Replying to @marwilliamson
I admire your optimism, and appreciate your responding to me, but I must respectfully disagree. As long as we exist in an economic system that rewards greed, wealth will concentrate and be used to buy the government.
Replying to @marwilliamson
Since you’re reading my tweets, I wanted to thank you for being the only candidate to bring up reparations for slavery / systemic racism. That’s a conversation our county needs to have, and you defended the idea beautifully.
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