1/ A few food companies determine the quality of our food, which is increasingly toxic. The defense industry determines the tenor of our foreign policy, which is driven by weapons sales. A few insurance companies dictate our healthcare policies, which brutally neglect our needs.
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Our democracy does not seem to be functioning very well. What are we to do?
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We have to passionately support candidates at every level - local, state, and federal - who represent an alternative to the undemocratic, authoritarian forces that now threaten. Those candidates are out there! Here’s a beginning. Candidatesummit.com

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Replying to @marwilliamson @beancountr
I appreciate honesty but isn’t going to work. PPL want/need direct determination over lives. Literally every single reason you became wealthy is what’s wrong. You see solns that continues to grant you entitlement that is killing humanity/natural world. Direct democratic localism
Replying to @marwilliamson @beancountr
I wish we had time for that but it has run out, it is either revolution (non-violent, non-cooperative) or billions will die. The Founders even stated that the people can replace the government anytime it no longer represents them, well, we are way passed that time.
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Change is not coming from inside the Democratic party. You're just wasting another decade pursuing this path, another decade we no longer have.
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If we don’t break the filibuster right wing power will be unassailable through democratic means.
Replying to @marwilliamson
I get it. But the progressive advance recruits more conservative candidates and alienates moderates - creating the breeding ground for scared conservatives, making Trump possible. How we tend the tree of liberty is the question.
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