1/ The reason extreme income inequality is so viscerally repulsive to me is because I’m old enough to remember the time - before 1980 - when it wasn’t this way. It all started with the Reagan tax cuts and Reaganomics in 1980.
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Reagan was just a return to pre-New Deal norms in many ways. It’s always been a rigged system.
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That’s why we need a new New Deal.

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#TheGreatRecovery is a great name with long lasting legacy potential.
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aka a New Way Forward
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They won’t let us do it.
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And not one that can be hacked away at piece by piece. There can be no version of a future where enhanced human rights is a harm. We need a durable, irrefutable, clear amendment to our Constitution that elaborates on the rights of all Americans. Then dare them to deny it to us.
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Then we need a trade union movement and poor people’s movement that truly scares the rich into believing capitalism may fall. The New Deal was created to stem off such a threat, not out of altruism or moral eventualism
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Not happening til 2032 at earliest. We gotta settle down and look out for ourselves/each other.