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.
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.
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 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.
@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.
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.
@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.
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.
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…
#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.
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.