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I'm going to retweet this from @camanpour and the tweets that followed as a thread. The vision of a post-#COVID19 recovery that Ursula @vonderleyen articulates for Europe could and should be a model for the United States as well.
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@vonderleyen reminds us of the value that the United States can bring to a united response to a global crisis. A value that is being held back by a backward, self-obsessed, isolationist mentality in the Oval Office and every mentality aligned with it.
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We are hearing similar caution and disciplined thinking from state governors, especially those working together in the 7-state Northeast Alliance and the 3-state Western States Compact. But not from the Oval Office.
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While Europe managed to catch itself before it fell too far back into the old mindset of every country for itself, we're still divided into internally compatible, but mutually incompatible regions, the "Eleven Nations of North America".
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This is the actual vision that @vonderleyen sets out. Not only a GREEN economy, but one based on circular economics, and a turn away from extractivist capitalism.

This is a radical threat to the oligarchical wealth dependent on those industries.
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We're now at an inflection point where the greatest opportunity for combined extractivist and disaster capitalism in history meets the greatest threat to both of them and, in fact, ALL forms of predatory capitalism in history.
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So far, there's no countervailing political power against the globalized, organized, concentrated oligarchical wealth based on obsolete and destructive industries. @JoeBiden and the Democrats should start working together with global allies to build that countervailing power.
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