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People with money literally cannot imagine what it is to not have it and that is actually the biggest problem in American politics. If you have never had to choose between food and something else essential in your life, you really have no clue about poverty.
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It's not folks' fault they're privileged & haven't had that personal layer of suffering & I don't wish it on anyone
B U T you actually can learn about these things and fight to change them for everyone and also this applies to everything most especially food/housing/#healthcare.
Literally no one in the Democratic primary is talking about poor people, not even Bernie or Booker who talks about Newark a lot, and poverty is crushing millions of American women. I wrote about it here in-depth and you should read it.
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The irony here is I spent an hour in therapy yesterday literally sobbing about how frustrating it is that I am so poor and have to fight constantly for my health insurance to pay for things like oxygen and rxs and I was saying how not one candidate was addressing poverty.
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No one wants to hear from actual poor people about poverty. True story: mid-90s I wrote a short story for an anthology based largely on my own experience of homelessness & my upper middle class editor at my then-publisher rejected it for her anthology as "not believable."
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My editor actually said that educated people don't end up on the street, so it strained credulity for the reader. Which readers, I queried.
My therapist works with homeless people and I told her this story and she sighed heavily.
These are issues missing from the primary.
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Not sure which "left" this is, but Socialists like my parents were and raised us to be know sneering at poor/working class people who need the services of the State is actually elitist pedagogy, not "woke" praxis. Sometimes you need to actually help people not just lecture them.
Telling single parents (mostly women) or any parents desperate for help with their kids because they are working jobs with zero flexibility that they need to just suck it up until the politically approved cultural critique is in place is truly the zenith of not getting it. Yikes.
My neighborhood is 95% black and 100% poor and this assertion that parents should just wait until society gets that why they need after school programs while they work is because our capitalist system doesn't value them as workers is actually missing the point in a bigly way.
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WTAF is this? What about Warren, Sanders, Buttigieg, Harris and Yang--all polling ahead of Steyer?

CNN to host Iowa presidential town halls with Tom Steyer, Joe Biden cnn.com/2019/11/04/pol…
My colleague @Will_Bunch who hates to see me have public meltdowns in which I use acronymic cursing since I don't curse on here reminds me that @CNN gave everyone town halls and that everyone else did theirs nearly a year ago, but Biden was trying to avoid his. Also, follow Will.
@Will_Bunch @CNN I do hope the first question @TomSteyer gets at his @CNN town hall right after he is asked about buying his way into the primary is "Why did your campaign steal the data mining from the only black woman in the race?"
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