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Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II

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24 Nov

Most people in this country don't hold stocks, are too far in debt or in jobs where they don't have access to a pension fund or something like that to be directly impacted by the stock market, whether it is going up or down.

If Americans have wealth at all, it is invested in their homes, but, through loans or mortgages. This may still not translate into any "positive" wealth, i.e., they may be in debt or "under water," where they owe more than they own.

This means the stock market is more a reflection of the wealth of the wealthy. Poor & low-income people are indirectly impacted by it, as the wealthy make decisions on their different sources of wealth (investments, firms/businesses they own, etc.) that affect the rest of us.

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Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II

@RevDrBarber

16 Nov

Medicare For All & a $15/hr federal minimum wage are not socialism. They’re social justice. They promote the general welfare for all people, and any Black or white person who says they’re socialism is wrong.

If Democrats truly presented what these policies would do for the American people, esp. for poor & low-income ppl, they can win on these policies. $15/hr minimum won in FL, even as Biden/Harris lost there.

If Dems aggressively fund voter turnout, stop playing defense & play offense instead, they can win even in the so-called "solid South," as well as all over the country.

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Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II

@RevDrBarber

9 Nov

Biden didn’t say compromise, he said cooperate—and that it’s a choice. Compromise never comes up with Republicans, because they never compromise.

The first stimulus bill was a compromise, and 84% of the money went to corporations. The ACA was a compromise, and Republicans still didn’t vote for it.

The Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, these were all compromises. "3/5 of a person" was a compromise.

Why can’t Democrats pass what is just, fair, and necessary and then fight for it? Use social media. Call on impacted people to march on the Senate & build campaigns in the states of the 3-4 Senators whose support you need.

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Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II

@RevDrBarber

8 Nov

"In 1860, Southern Democrats, flush with the disproportionate power granted to them by the Electoral College, had torn the Union in half and instigated four years of bloody internecine warfare.

"Mindful of this history, in December, 1868, Senator Aaron Cragin, of New Hampshire, and Representative William Kelley, of Pennsylvania, introduced drafts of what eventually became the Fifteenth Amendment.

“Black voters were meant to be a bulwark against a similar regime arising to again threaten national unity—which is to say that people who had scarcely ever experienced democracy were now among its chief safeguards.

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Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II

@RevDrBarber

8 Nov

Love them. Pray for them. But don't stay stuck in the past with them. It's time for America to stop asking Trump to be magnanimous. He will have to confess his sins and the sins of his party to do that and that’s on him, McConnell, etc.

It’s time for America to shake the dust off our feet and move forward together.

Now, just in case you want to know one last time why Republicans are so tied to Trump and his tactics, it's because these are the tactics they have used for the last 52 years.

Read this to understand what’s going on and let’s move forward together:

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Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II

@RevDrBarber

7 Nov

This is more than a victory for Biden and Harris. This is a victory for democracy. When all the votes are counted, some 80 million Americans will have voted to end the Trumpism politics of lies, greed and the lust for power.

An unprecedented coalition of American people have said clearly, "We cannot go backwards. We are going forward together."

People did not turnout in record numbers in the midst of a pandemic to vote for a return to normal.

We have elected Biden and Harris to use the power of government to lift up those who have been battered by COVID-19, battered by poverty, and battered by years of Republican extremism.

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