It’s about appropriate guardrails and regulations so huge financial interests are no longer able to exert the control they do now. We need a president willing to unequivocally wage the struggle, not play both sides.
Of all the sinister consequences of our corporate-dominated order, none is more serious than the betrayal of our children.
Our country should not be run like a business; it should be like a family. cnbc.com/amp/2023/09/12/more…
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/)
The UAW strike is not just about auto workers; it's about a long overdue repudiation by the American people of institutionalized corporate greed.
There's a reason why 75% of Americans support the strike; people on both Right and Left have begun to realize that the axis of opposition in this country isn't Right ver Left but rather Up versus Down.
The profound income inequality now baked into the cake in this country is being rejected not by status quo politicians but by the American people. At a time of overarching economic injustice, there is a rising up of New Labor to push back against it.
Next step, elect a President who aligns with that 1,000 per cent.
Marianne2024.com
How do we "shut it down," Alana? Two thousand miles we're talking about. A wall? A wall of soldiers? What's the practical, on-the-ground experience you foresee?