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21 Apr, 5 tweets, 1 min read
Those who keep fighting against Federal spending, spreading fearporn about the National Debt and bullshit about "reducing deficits" are the reason we have not simply nationalized payroll and had the government cover rent/mortgage/utilities and provide Medicare for All NOW.
So this is a bit of "Progressives" & "MAGA" NOT investing in learning how the damn economy works & failing to make the correct, SUSTAINED demands.
Most people ignored Bernie's Economic Advisor... Most ignored the subject for years. Even with the Deficit Myth!

Now people will die over it.

Think about how many already have.
The cancer of the movement..

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Austerity is Murder🌹 Profile picture
21 Apr
So the plan is always to privatize as much as possible all in the name of creating markets.

This is neoliberalism.

It can only thrive based on lies.

Based on the idea that the government is broke, in debt to foreign nations or conspiracies like the Rothschilds etc.

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It can only thrive as long as you believe that your "hard earned tax dollar" is paying for someone's bad decisions.

They can make the case repeatedly that we cannot afford to do nice things.
Worthlessly, many in the political sphere advance this lie and we believe them. We allow them to represent us with falsehoods.
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12 Apr
I am surrounded by people in real life and the virtual world that think the Federal Government should be run like a household budget even now. It's debilitating.
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This probably doesn't resonate with anyone other than myself and probably is going to die along with me... But I am still suffering intensely from the last global financial crisis. So I turned my pain into activism and education.

@PatrickLovell1 gets it
All these years later I see the same people saying the same dumb stuff about taxes and "bankrupting the nation" even as the nation creates its own currency. Every single day. Every single dollar spent by the Federal Government is new money. Every single dollar.

Yet here we are.
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22 Mar
The unfortunate thing is people on our own team listen to uneducated voices about economic solutions & perspectives and in desperation, they ignore the most important things. I mean absolutely VITAL things that are gonna really have far reaching & extremely negative consequences.
Never underestimate the power of an uneducated herd, galloping in precisely the wrong direction based on the absolute right sensibilities however with absolutely destructive consequences.

The #UBI or Universal Basic Income is a false promise.
I have long been a proponent of a Universal Basic Needs approach because the government can absorb any price shocks or costs that may be associated with a lack of production or dealing with gouging and hording.
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21 Mar
Revolution is a funny thing: most hate planning, hate building and always forget there are counter revolutionary elements always laying in wait for complacency. Revolutions are not events, they have an arc and a timeline. They must be sustained

Know anyone given to complacency?
Take a look at what happened with the Great Financial Crisis and how folks got bored in chasing down these actors that should be in jail or at least flogged in the town square.
People just got bored and chased other shiny objects.

Look at the Covid bail outs and the pittance we the people received.

Bored. Yawn... Folks want to be entertained.

It requires a lot more than how you feel. It requires focus, commitment and yes... Sacrifice.
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11 Mar
All your heroes were content chasing tax $$ in a fiat regime & they couldn't sac up to change shit.

Now #MMT has gotten in front of incrementalists & begun doing what you couldn't & wouldn't do for the last BAZILLION years. Some of the victories are different than what you think
It's ok to HATE #BlueAnon & despise sell outs & point out when Progressives fail to do the minimum resistance & watch Joe Manchin do solo what the squad would not do for Medicare for All or wars or lies like Russia Gate & all the other horseshit the horrific establishment pushes
It's ok to point out how shitty the party is and how they leverage rotating villains to kill legislation
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7 Mar
Neoliberals represent an existential threat to even their most ardent defenders for the following 3 key reasons:
1. Neoliberals represent the status quo during times when drastic action is required. They tell everyone everything is impossible and then ensure it is impossible by instituting austerity measures of deficit reduction and tax hikes.
2. Neoliberals allow lesser intellects and wealthy people to feel they have done their Civic duty example preventing Trump and then go back to sleep...
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