In order to get onto the ballots in all fifty states it costs hundreds of thousands of dollars. The system is rigged to make sure that only those with a lot of money, or access to a lot of money, can get near the highest pinnacles of power. 🧵

Nov 22, 2023 · 8:42 PM UTC

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So we have a choice: rule by oligarchs or rule by the people. When "a gov't of the people, by the people and for the people" has become "a gov't of a few of the people, by a few of the people and for a few of the people," it's up to the people to decide whether to let that stand.
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Please donate so issues like MedicareForAll, tuition free college and tech school, a guaranteed living wage, declaring a Climate Emergency, a Dept of Peace and ending the Drug War - A PEOPLE'S AGENDA RATHER THAN A CORPORATE AGENDA - can unrig the system and turn the ship around.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
God crystal lady no. Go away
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All you do is complain.
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The problem is the highest pinnacles of power
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Exactly. Even a local election is far beyond the means of most local ppl. Wo lots of money, no one ever knows who they are. In Henderson, NV we would hv 10 candidates who got literally 0 votes but the developer w $1m mayor every time.
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Hard pass. Voters already made the devastating choice of a celebrity without the sophisticated resume to run the country. Experience matters—#BidenHarris2024
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Are you willing to release your tax returns for the past 10 years?
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Just ask your buddy Trump, he'll gladly help you fund your efforts to return him to the White House. Then we'll never have to bother with elections ever again.
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Yet we point our finger to russias oligarchs and it's corruption. Kettle black?
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🤬 a travesty of democracy!