Due to 40 plus years during which corporate profit has replaced democracy as the governing principle of our society a small group of Americans have received the extraordinary bounty of this corporatist scheme while 4 out of 10 Americans now struggle economically on a daily basis.

Jul 10, 2022 · 10:27 AM UTC

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Replying to @marwilliamson
The goal of a corporation is to make profit: that’s not the problem. The goal of a politician is to get re-elected: that IS the problem.
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I disagree! Corporations should demonstrate ethical responsibility. They should treat not only shareholders but also workers, community & environment as equal stakeholders. Making shareholders its only stakeholders has turned capitalism into a weapon against the people.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
And yet, Americans are convinced they deserve the scraps. That inequality is somehow the fault of the poor, that health care should be at maximum profit, that retiring with dignity someone else's problem. We should be in the streets yet we do nothing that will effect change.
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I don’t think we do nothing. Millions try but the effort meets extraordinary institutional resistance. Abolitionists met resistance, suffragettes met resistance, civil rights movement met resistance yet they ultimately prevailed. So will we.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
Two out of those four were doing just fine under Trump. It's Bidenomics that is the issue. Runaway stagflation, hyper-regulation, attacks on US energy, and pandering to China.
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Curious. What do you call hyper regulation? Minimum safety standards?
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Replying to @marwilliamson
Why would unions shutdown independent trucking operators?
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Replying to @marwilliamson
Good tweet. Now blame the cause - gov’t corruption - and we will start to get somewhere.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
You live in a nice house
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