We don't have healthcare because of health insurance companies, can't afford medicine because of price gauging by Big Pharma, planet is desecrated because of Big Oil, guns flood our streets because of the NRA and we fight criminal wars because of the military industrial complex

May 27, 2022 · 10:18 AM UTC

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Corporate rule is tyranny, and if we let it stand we will be the first generation of Americans - unlike the abolitionists, unlike the women suffragettes, and unlike the civil rights movement - who ultimately didn't have what it takes to push it back. We must.
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In a functional democracy the govt. is supposed to ensure that the private interests do not supersede public interests.
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You supported the U.S. proxy war in Ukraine
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Tell me how much money you receive from defense contractors
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It’s all about $$$$$$$$$$
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...and it is almost impossible to cast a vote AGAINST those horrible things. Both Republicans and Democrats at the organizational level are 100% fighting FOR the powerful profiteers who orchestrate the awful, utterly captured situation you describe.
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But you said to vote for all of this so.....🤷🏽‍♀️
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America in a nutshell.
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I left my home Kingston NY with my husband on Tuesday to return to my home country, Australia, after a getting a leukemia diagnosis. I wasn’t working so had no health care. I put off going to the Dr for the same reason. And I’m lucky because I had another option.
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