At our best, Americans have known when to begin again. When to cut the cord with one chapter of our history and begin another. 1/5
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We responded to slavery with Abolition. We responded to the institutionalized oppression of women with the 19th Amendment. We responded to the Gilded Age with the establishment of organized labor. We responded to segregation with the civil rights movement. 2/5

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And now it’s our turn. We can cut the cord with an aberrational chapter of history and it’s 50 year war on the middle-class. 3/5
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Other generations had to reject specific institutional realities. We need to reject an economic paradigm, a matrix of corporate powers whose profits supersede safety, health, and well-being of the American people. 4/5
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Let’s reject the stale status quo of corporatism and begin again with a burst of democratic fervor. Let’s not be the first generation to wimp out on doing what it takes to correct our course when we have swerved so far from the truth of who we are. 5/5
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Replying to @marwilliamson
Tsk tsk. You are misrepresenting history. You use events, but without context.