“Many of them had incomes so low that they were housing insecure. A number of them were in and out of homelessness.” “When you think of low-wage workers, you don’t think of school employees,” she said. “You think, maybe, of fast food workers...” 1/3 nytimes.com/2023/03/24/us/lo…

Los Angeles Schools and 30,000 Workers Reach Tentative Deal After Strike

The three-day walkout included Los Angeles Unified School District teachers, gardeners, bus drivers, cafeteria workers and special education assistants.

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“…But you don’t think of individuals who take care of special needs kids.” The Mayor of Los Angeles has been in Congress for 11 years and it took the S.E.I.U. strike to make her realize the economic hardships endured by average working Americans. Just knowing the truth in America today is a radicalizing experience. 2/3
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America needs a full on economic u-turn, from universal healthcare to tuition free college and tech school to free childcare and paid family and sick leave to a guaranteed livable wage. Those are considered moderate positions in every other advanced democracy - and they should be in ours as well. For the last 50 years, Americans have been conned into believing trickle down lies. Now it’s time for some trickle up truth. 3/3

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This is what, in the conservative world, they call socialism.
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This is what, in a reasonable world, they call “government of the people, by the people, and for the people.” Telling people they can’t have things that should be considered their basic rights by scaring them away with the bogeyman phrase “socialism” has been the biggest victory of the proprietors of the new Gilded Age. It’s been a propaganda campaign from the beginning.
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That's not an economic u-turn. That's pointing the economic plane at the ground and firewalling the throttle. Why not be honest and tell people how much more in taxes all your plans will cost them? Probably cause folks don't like candidates that cost then more money in taxes.
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People are paying too much *now.*… 1) People in other countries who pay more taxes get much much more in exchange for them, therefore spending much less of their own money paying for things such as childcare and healthcare out of their own pockets. Right now, for instance, one in four Americans carry medical debt. Medical debt does not exist where there is universal healthcare. 2) These kinds of changes do not involve more taxes for the middle class, but only for those who earn so much that they wouldn’t even feel it. A righteous person doesn’t want to feel that their ability to create wealth is predicated on other people never getting a chance to.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
You’ve acknowledged many times that the capitalist / “authoritarian corporatist” economic system is deeply corrupted. Are you committed to overthrowing capitalism entirely? If so, how? Doesn’t running for president to some extent legitimize the current power structure?
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Capitalism isn’t a switch you turn off and on. The happiest countries where people are thriving the most are hybrid economies. Scandinavia, etc.. It doesn’t legitimize the current power structure to run for office. You disrupt it by gaining levers of power within it. An example, unfortunately, are all the extremist right wing authoritarians gaining power in statehouses around the country.
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We have a universal healthcare system and it mostly sucks, even though it does some good. It is called the Veterans Administration (VA). Live in that rabbit hole and you may change your mind.
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The problem there is not that it’s universal care, but that it’s not *enough* care. And in many cases it’s the wrong kind of care, woefully administered. Please let me know if I’m wrong.
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The Truth is gonna erupt like a geyser! 🔥 🌊
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It needs to.
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