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Rich liberal “activists” like George Takei and Alyssa Milano operate under the guise of moral virtue while cynically co-opting the language of class solidarity in order to condemn agitation and boost up corporate-owned Democrats who will guard their vast and undeserved fortunes.
“In every American community you have varying shades of political opinion. One of the shadiest of these is the liberals...Ten degrees to the left of center in good times, ten degrees to the right of center if it affects them personally.” -Phil Ochs
Class solidarity is the greatest uniting force in politics. The ultra rich have it, and the two things that appear to activate it are Republican candidates who insult their bourgeoise sensibilities on TV or Democratic candidates with the gall to tax them fairly.
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If a poor man’s blood needs to pass a drug test for the right to eat, then a rich man’s character needs to pass a purity test for the right to govern.
“Purity test” is a covert media distortion that paints class solidarity as naive and idealistic behavior rather than as the rational response from a group of people whose economic conditions have become untenable.
No thinking person is demanding total purity of heart and soul from their candidates. We are demanding they not accept huge campaign donations in exchange for desirable legislation for billionaire shareholders of corporations whose greed is murdering the planet.
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We mustn’t allow President Trump to tarnish the sanctity of an office exclusively occupied by thieves and bigots and craven sex pests and backroom profiteers and genocidal maniacs and slave-owners and Jesus freaks and bloodthirsty war criminals for the past 200 some odd years.
Liberals need to stop pretending that the dignity of the Presidency is somehow under siege. The office itself is a corrupt antidemocratic safeguard created from the pipe dream of slave owning aristocrats who didn’t want to have to pay for the land they were stealing.
The class dynamics of capitalism are not new inventions of the modern day (see mercantilism and feudalism). The “American experiment” was to see how purely a group of ultra-rich white supremacists could crystallize into law and doctrine their privatizing a continent’s resources.
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One of the more facile arguments I hear all the time is that "capitalism has lifted more people out of extreme poverty than any other economic system in history."

Do you know what the U.N.'s metric for "extreme poverty" is? $1.90 a day. 13 bucks a week. A meaningless threshold.
This talking point, which was generated by the Cato Institute, uses the fact that globalization has risen more people's consumption levels above ***$1.90 per day*** to justify a system that allows ten men to own half the world while one in nine human beings is currently starving.
Capitalism is the word we use to explain the increasingly unregulated accumulation of wealth by a smaller and smaller collection of individuals who use that power to manipulate global political systems through lobbying and violence to further accelerate the consolidation.
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You know, I'm seeing some incredulous responses to this tweet from folks who could be considered gatekeepers in the foodie & sustainable ag movement.

Be incredulous if you like! That's your prerogative.

But it resonated with people. Think on that.
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The Christian Right had their own "Cambridge Analytica" in the 2016 election, aided by 20,000 pastors.

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Do parishioners know they were, and still are, targets of big data campaigns? /1
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