1/ @scottsantens @AndrewYang #YangGang
A thread about context. It's time to address the elephants in the room. The YangGang has collectively come to feel like @TheDemocrats are working against us. This feeling has long been shared by @BernieSanders supporters.
A thread about context. It's time to address the elephants in the room. The YangGang has collectively come to feel like @TheDemocrats are working against us. This feeling has long been shared by @BernieSanders supporters.
@scottsantens @AndrewYang @TheDemocrats @BernieSanders 2/
For their own part, supporters of @realDonaldTrump have felt something similar on their own side of things. I think these feelings reflect and represent a deeper truth. We live in world that is overlaid by a nested series of power structures.
For their own part, supporters of @realDonaldTrump have felt something similar on their own side of things. I think these feelings reflect and represent a deeper truth. We live in world that is overlaid by a nested series of power structures.
@scottsantens @AndrewYang @TheDemocrats @BernieSanders @realDonaldTrump 3/
The masses, by and large, live in hamster wheels. We have limited time, energy and ability to grasp the power structures that exist, let alone work to change them. You see hints at this reflected in talk about 'permanent government' and 'elites'.
The masses, by and large, live in hamster wheels. We have limited time, energy and ability to grasp the power structures that exist, let alone work to change them. You see hints at this reflected in talk about 'permanent government' and 'elites'.
@scottsantens @AndrewYang @TheDemocrats @BernieSanders @realDonaldTrump 4/
The leaders we elect are much more transient than the structures within which they work, even when we give them significant power. Those leaders find themselves in hamster wheels too, however larger than those which are spun endlessly by those of us living day to day.
The leaders we elect are much more transient than the structures within which they work, even when we give them significant power. Those leaders find themselves in hamster wheels too, however larger than those which are spun endlessly by those of us living day to day.
@scottsantens @AndrewYang @TheDemocrats @BernieSanders @realDonaldTrump 5/
@realDonaldTrump supporters took a leap and hoped that putting a bull in the china shop would shake things up and loosen the grip that the wheels have on our lives and leaders, and to some extent, he has. But we need to undermine the forces that keep us in the wheels.
@realDonaldTrump supporters took a leap and hoped that putting a bull in the china shop would shake things up and loosen the grip that the wheels have on our lives and leaders, and to some extent, he has. But we need to undermine the forces that keep us in the wheels.
@scottsantens @AndrewYang @TheDemocrats @BernieSanders @realDonaldTrump 6/
Candidates like @PeteButtigieg, @amyklobuchar, @JoeBiden, and even @ewarren represent the status quo, to various extents, and while they may be seeking to make people's lives better, they are proposing to do so completely within the current power structures and dynamics.
Candidates like @PeteButtigieg, @amyklobuchar, @JoeBiden, and even @ewarren represent the status quo, to various extents, and while they may be seeking to make people's lives better, they are proposing to do so completely within the current power structures and dynamics.
@scottsantens @AndrewYang @TheDemocrats @BernieSanders @realDonaldTrump @PeteButtigieg @amyklobuchar @JoeBiden @ewarren 7/
@BernieSanders, for his part, represents a movement on the Left in the US which is trying to make more radical changes. Many who support him want to tear down the system in its entirety, and replace capitalism. For many of them, capitalism itself is the real enemy.
@BernieSanders, for his part, represents a movement on the Left in the US which is trying to make more radical changes. Many who support him want to tear down the system in its entirety, and replace capitalism. For many of them, capitalism itself is the real enemy.
@scottsantens @AndrewYang @TheDemocrats @BernieSanders @realDonaldTrump @PeteButtigieg @amyklobuchar @JoeBiden @ewarren 8/
I think that this approach significantly misdiagnoses the problem. Capitalism has brought so much of what we consider good in our lives into being, and has spread those gains around the world, to the poorest of people, more quickly that anyone would have thought possible.
I think that this approach significantly misdiagnoses the problem. Capitalism has brought so much of what we consider good in our lives into being, and has spread those gains around the world, to the poorest of people, more quickly that anyone would have thought possible.
@scottsantens @AndrewYang @TheDemocrats @BernieSanders @realDonaldTrump @PeteButtigieg @amyklobuchar @JoeBiden @ewarren 9/
What we need to do is free people from their wheels, citizens and leaders alike. We need to find a way to make the systems that have brought so much prosperity, but which are now threatening the stability of our societies, and the dignity of their citizens, function in a…
What we need to do is free people from their wheels, citizens and leaders alike. We need to find a way to make the systems that have brought so much prosperity, but which are now threatening the stability of our societies, and the dignity of their citizens, function in a…
@scottsantens @AndrewYang @TheDemocrats @BernieSanders @realDonaldTrump @PeteButtigieg @amyklobuchar @JoeBiden @ewarren 10/ …context where the fruits of those systems are, with ever-increasing ferocity and velocity, going to disrupt and shrink labor markets. We have to find a way to ensure that rising tide will lift all boats, without trying to stop the tide.
@scottsantens @AndrewYang @TheDemocrats @BernieSanders @realDonaldTrump @PeteButtigieg @amyklobuchar @JoeBiden @ewarren 11/
#ISupportYang because I think he has landed on the right combination of policies to accomplish this. He's not seeking to destroy what we have built, he's seeking to get us all out of the wheels and remake the power structures that overlay our world, from the ground up.
#ISupportYang because I think he has landed on the right combination of policies to accomplish this. He's not seeking to destroy what we have built, he's seeking to get us all out of the wheels and remake the power structures that overlay our world, from the ground up.
@scottsantens @AndrewYang @TheDemocrats @BernieSanders @realDonaldTrump @PeteButtigieg @amyklobuchar @JoeBiden @ewarren 12/ Yang talks about UBI getting the boot off of people's throats--that's the wheels we all live in, where a mindset of scarcity keeps us from even fully seeing the power structures that keep us trapped in them, let alone effectively fighting to change them.
@scottsantens @AndrewYang @TheDemocrats @BernieSanders @realDonaldTrump @PeteButtigieg @amyklobuchar @JoeBiden @ewarren 13/
Yang talks about Democracy Dollars forming a giant wave that will wash away big money interests and remove their choke hold on US politics--that's the wheels our leaders live in, where no matter their goals, they are kept beholden.
Yang talks about Democracy Dollars forming a giant wave that will wash away big money interests and remove their choke hold on US politics--that's the wheels our leaders live in, where no matter their goals, they are kept beholden.
@scottsantens @AndrewYang @TheDemocrats @BernieSanders @realDonaldTrump @PeteButtigieg @amyklobuchar @JoeBiden @ewarren 14/ Yang talks about more than a hundred other policies, large and small, designed to simplify and streamline governance and the lives of the governed. He wants to start us on a path towards prosperity and dignity for everyone.
@scottsantens @AndrewYang @TheDemocrats @BernieSanders @realDonaldTrump @PeteButtigieg @amyklobuchar @JoeBiden @ewarren 15/ Tearing it all down, disrupting, eating the rich--these things miss the point. What do you think will spring back up in their place if we don't fundamentally change the power structures that overlay our world?
@scottsantens @AndrewYang @TheDemocrats @BernieSanders @realDonaldTrump @PeteButtigieg @amyklobuchar @JoeBiden @ewarren 16/ To bring this thread full circle, when we, in these various anti-establishment political factions, feel as though the powers that be are working against us, it's because whether or not they are, it would be in their best interest if they were.
@scottsantens @AndrewYang @TheDemocrats @BernieSanders @realDonaldTrump @PeteButtigieg @amyklobuchar @JoeBiden @ewarren 17/ We know it, and I have no doubt that they know it. In order to stay in power, those that have it now must keep us all in our wheels.
@scottsantens @AndrewYang @TheDemocrats @BernieSanders @realDonaldTrump @PeteButtigieg @amyklobuchar @JoeBiden @ewarren 18/ They must keep us focused on paying that bill, buying that next hot trend, comparing ourselves to that other person's Instagram or bank account or follower count.
@scottsantens @AndrewYang @TheDemocrats @BernieSanders @realDonaldTrump @PeteButtigieg @amyklobuchar @JoeBiden @ewarren 19/ They must keep our elected leaders beholden to their power, and they absolutely must keep the power out of the hands of the masses. I encourage all of you to zoom as far out as you are able, try to look always at the big picture, and limit the infighting. #HumanityFirst
