To the "Oh she's not a serious candidate" crowd:
I take seriously that America has the highest poverty rate of any advanced democracy.
I take seriously that one in four Americans live with medical debt.
I take seriously that tens of millions of Americans live with over a trillion dollars of college loan debt just so that greedy financial institutions can leech off young people's desire to become educated and better their lives.
I take seriously that we need to ramp down fossil fuel extraction NOW if we're in any way to keep faith with the right of future generations to even survive on this planet.
I take seriously the threats to democracy posed both by neo-fascism attacking it from the outside, and neoliberalism eroding it from the inside.
Of course "they" don't want you to think I'm serious.
Because. they're. not.
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I think we should decrease the defense budget by at least 20 percent.
As president I would close (which the president can do unilaterally) military bases in several countries.
I would establish a U.S. Dept. of Peace.
Our Sec. of Defense would not be a former member of Raytheon, nor would he or she be a military general.
I do not give the U.S. war machine a pass.
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