There's a lot of chatter about the so-called "Great Reset." Some of it is conspiracy theory.

One thing, though, is right out in the open: the pandemic has triggered one of the largest wealth transfers in American history. And it's not trickling down. It's shifting upwards.
Small and locally-owned businesses have been getting killed throughout the pandemic.

While business slowdowns were to some degree an inevitable result of fighting COVID, the fact remains that corporate giants are gobbling up market share as a result.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
Millions of Americans are slipping into poverty. Millions are threatened with eviction. The federal and state governments' stopgap measures have helped, but many of those relief efforts are expiring.

Meanwhile, Amazon's stock price is up 75% this year.

nbcnews.com/news/us-news/8…
In many ways this pandemic has revealed the weaknesses of our globalized economy. Our supply chains for everyday goods were vulnerable to disruption. Vital resources like ventilators were difficult to procure domestically. International travelers were the early superspreaders.
...and yet, the people and institutions who are suffering most from the virus and the lockdowns are not international conglomerates or jet-setters.

Perversely, it's the opposite.
By all indications, we are going to come out of this pandemic with economic power *even more* concentrated than before.

This is why we need a political movement to fight for the small-scale ownership that keeps our families and neighborhoods thriving.

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24 Nov
We have our disagreements with Rep. Omar, to put it mildly, but it's interesting that some conservatives are lashing out at this when she's only repeating a point here that Dwight Eisenhower (not exactly a radical socialist) made more than sixty years ago.
As Ike put it, "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
"This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children...This is not a way of life at all... Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron."
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14 Nov
Using pro-abortion rhetoric to oppose mask-wearing is a sign that you've gotten off track somewhere.

"My body, my choice," is a bad slogan in both cases: because it's not just about you.
There are real trade-offs involved in disease response strategies. We can debate those.

But not if we can't past the basic starting point that we have responsibilities to our neighbors and communities.
MAGA-conservatives are so focused on "owning the libs" that they don't see how their own attitudes are "liberal" in an almost cartoonish way: elevating individual selfishness above the common good.

In different ways, both of our ruling parties do this all the time.
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14 Nov
So this happened: a senior US diplomat admits that the Washington bureaucracy was lying to President Trump in order to keep a larger US military presence in Syria.

defenseone.com/threats/2020/1…
The fact that this apparently worked does not speak especially well of the president.

The fact that it happened at all is an indictment of our foreign policy establishment.
Among our elites, there is a broad cross-party bias in favor of expansive US military commitments overseas. It is *deeply* baked into the conventional wisdom in policy circles, the State Department and other overseas agencies, and the military.

Some people call this "The Blob."
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14 Nov
An update: we've made back in new donations since September what we spent on the presidential campaign this entire year, and then some.

We're going into 2021 stronger than we've ever been as a party.
Right now we're in planning mode for the upcoming cycle of elections. Here is one specific project we can share with you:

In the upcoming year or so, we hope to get 1,000 people in the state of Louisiana signed up as registered ASP voters.
Why Louisiana, you ask?

Well, we did relatively well there in the presidential election, coming in 5th and beating most of the other third party and independent candidates. We think there's a lot of potential for growth.

It doesn't hurt there's a pelican on the state flag.
Read 8 tweets
13 Nov
Ever heard of the Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act of 1980?

Most people haven't, but it was a key step in advancing a deregulation agenda in the financial sector (something that started before the Reagan years).

It did one thing in particular:
It gutted federal usury laws, which previously had limited loans to interest rates between 7 and 10 percent. Now, in many cases, there was no limit.
Already, in 1978, the Supreme Court had severely undercut state usury laws by allowing banks to charge interest at the legal rate in their home state regardless of where their customers lived.
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7 Nov
You may have seen this chart going around.

It's a little simplified, but it points to something true: there's a huge opening in American politics that the duopoly isn't filling.
It's not the "fiscally conservative/socially liberal" brand of centrism that's so popular in the Beltway.

If *that* was really that popular, Mike Bloomberg wouldn't have spent 10 million dollars for every delegate he won in the Dem primary.
What's actually missing is a communitarian vision: a politics the puts families and communities first in both economic and social policy.

No party is really doing that, though a few prominent figures are vaguely gesturing at it.
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