If defense contractors didn’t dominate our foreign policy; and Big Pharma and health insurance companies didn’t dominate our healthcare; and fossil fuel companies didn’t dominate our energy policies, wouldn’t we all be better off?

Dec 12, 2021 · 7:58 AM UTC

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Replying to @marwilliamson
ABSOLUTELY, but we have to change our so-called 2 party system first!!
Replying to @marwilliamson
Maybe, but at what cost? Surely all of those companies provided enough positive advancement to warrant rising to the stature they have achieved for legitimate reasons, even if they have overstepped in some degree since. What would be lost by implementing drastic change? And how?
Replying to @marwilliamson
Yes. We absolutely would be better off. Don't forget how the fossil fuel industry has stifled our development of modern efficient transportation infrastructure too.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
No, the politicians would completely take over, How better would we be then?
Replying to @marwilliamson
Well, yes, probably, when you put it that way. But many voters in the USA have boundless respect for anyone who makes a buck, and that’s the sort of person they want making government policy.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
Yes we would! We need a people-planet- centered system instead of the current where people and planet are at the service of a large-scale business sysem. Question is: what is it we need to do to shape a new earth?
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Replying to @marwilliamson
Why not get in the streets weekly to demand an end to lobbyists & revolving door positions? Like Fire Drill Friday’s… we’ll do Stop Lobbyists Saturdays…
Replying to @marwilliamson
Yup, we would be. Now remember that the next time you exhort twitter to vote blue MAGA expecting DNC filth to take a single step towards that.