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Many are not getting any relief from this "stimulus". Many will be forgotten. Many will lose their jobs. Many will lose their homes.
Privilege will allow many to play board games and enjoy long binges of streaming video.
That's what neoliberalism does.
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Privilege will allow many to play board games and enjoy long binges of streaming video.
That's what neoliberalism does.
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Neoliberalism takes the best of us... Makes us slightly more comfortable than those left out and makes it easy to give into privileged stances.
Bernie Sanders platform talks about "I will fight for someone I don't know"
Bernie Sanders platform talks about "I will fight for someone I don't know"
but only under Bernie's proposals are these programs and stimulus universal. Only under Sanders plans are these items rights. Good people. Bad people. Rich people. Poor people. People ..
@TransformedMe @FlyThaiMMA @SaulGrown Oh, that's decades of "us vs them" framing, mixed with very liberal amounts of identity politics.
"We need a woman for President" is an implied public good.
"We need Medicare for All" is an explicit public good.
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"We need a woman for President" is an implied public good.
"We need Medicare for All" is an explicit public good.
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@TransformedMe @FlyThaiMMA @SaulGrown 1/
Now, it's time. We can, will, should elect a woman.
But, the trick is this:
They conflate that with "defeating Trump is all that matters", work people into a froth so they vote identity, not policy.
Wash, rinse repeat for decades on.
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Now, it's time. We can, will, should elect a woman.
But, the trick is this:
They conflate that with "defeating Trump is all that matters", work people into a froth so they vote identity, not policy.
Wash, rinse repeat for decades on.
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@TransformedMe @FlyThaiMMA @SaulGrown 2/
Bernie is for Medicare For All. Warren was for it, until she wasn't, and that comes down to money in politics and her own ideological issues about all this.
Social Democrats know the way to beat Trump is to answer his BS, and that of the Democratic party frankly,
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Bernie is for Medicare For All. Warren was for it, until she wasn't, and that comes down to money in politics and her own ideological issues about all this.
Social Democrats know the way to beat Trump is to answer his BS, and that of the Democratic party frankly,
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