The main difference between politics of the 21st-century and politics of the 20th is a willingness to address root causes rather than just symptoms. 1/6
Nov 27, 2023 · 10:50 AM UTC
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Establishment politicians, often stuck in 20th C mindset, don’t want to look at root causes of our problems because of how often their policies ARE the root causes. 2/6
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We end up thinking we have a lot of different problems - environmental, food supply, education, poverty, mental health, violence, criminal justice reform, health care and more - when there is one core malfeasance that connects them all: a fundamental lack of economic justice that infuses our operating system. 3/6
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In the 1970s the average worker could afford a car, a house, a yearly vacation, and to send their kids to college. One salary could sustain a family of four. 4/6
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Over the last 50 years we have sucked $50 trillion from the bottom 90% of Americans, creating an obscenely bloated fraternity of billionaires for whom the US treasury is a gilded piggy bank and leaving millions of people struggling on a daily basis to simply make it at all. 5/6
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A government that maintains and perpetuates that inequity has a lot of nerve calling itself “qualified.” Qualified to drive a car means nothing if in the final analysis you’re on the wrong road. 6/6
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