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
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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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Replying to @marwilliamson
Get a grip. Billionaires pay zero taxes & have an outsized role in public policy by buying politicians. It’s the Trump tax scam that contributes to the inequalities. And of course these dangerous billionaires are all in on fascism. A danger to the middle class.
Replying to @marwilliamson
Bailouts are fascism. No one really wants capitalism because that involves risk; it's just theater.
Replying to @marwilliamson
It’s allot simpler than that. 1 stop all foreign interference for resources and bring our military home to build this country. 2 Turn military contractors into infrastructure developers so they don’t get in your way as they will still be making the same billions. Common sense.
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