It seems like there are so many issues confronting us, from environmental breakdown to income inequality to food insecurity to racial discrimination to criminal injustice and more, but at the bottom of all that is one essential problem: the takeover of our democracy by forces of corporate greed. Corporate greed is a plague on our society. It acts at this point almost like a single institutionalized force, able to control our government through its financial influence on Congress, the White House and SCOTUS. Its tentacles reach into every sector of our society - poisoning our food and water and air; denying Americans health care; flooding our streets with guns; desecrating our environment; denying education and economic prospects to our young; and dominating our foreign affairs. No, America, things are not okay. This is the 11th hour but it isn't midnight yet. Things can still be put right - but not by electing a status quo politician. The status quo will not disrupt itself. It's time for the people to step in. (marianne2024.com/issues/)

Sep 19, 2023 · 4:35 AM UTC

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First plausible genuine challenge to the status quo since Debs
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You made your money from writing about a new age book interpreting the same religious text the right relies on to assert Christofascist control and somehow we are to believe you can problem solve these issues better than President Biden? Why?
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Thank you for speaking to this. People have been broadly brainwashed by corporatist propaganda. It will take an astute orator to illustrate this reality to many who are yet unaware.
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you're right. of the PEOPLE, by the PEOPLE, for the PEOPLE—not controlled by the corporate sector. the book Wealth Supremacy: How the Extractive Economy and the Biased Rules of Capitalism Drive Today's Crises, by @marjorie_kelly, is superb.
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Marianne thinks if you just put the govt on steroids, tax the hell out of everyone including the working poor, enact laws single-handedly that require congress to change the constitution to enact the era, it goes on and on. In short-she doesn’t know a THING about how it all works
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I guess having our country $33 trillion in debt is not enough. Just print more money! This is already debt we can never pay back. This is how economies collapse to great depression eras.
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Things like UBI and getting a solid plan for affordable housing in the USA would definitely help. Corporations are basically parasites of society. Sucking resources, while regular people go without... Help at ground level is needed.
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Finally, a Democratic candidate who is for the people and not a self-described capitalist who is willing to sacrifice workers to keep the economy moving and then naming his blood soaked economic policy after himself.
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I need help
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It isn't corporate greed, it is capitalism. Our system isn't broken, it is working as intended. Trying to obfuscate that actual problem just makes you a charlatan.
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