People are fucking fed up with guns. And they're fed up with a lot of other things, too. Things where money has bought ways to keep us from solving problems when the problems are about profits. /1
Climate, of course, is the big one. Oil & coal companies buying politicians while sea levels rise, freak storms of great intensity - worse every year...
But so many other problems where the solutions are blocked by big money... /2
But so many other problems where the solutions are blocked by big money... /2
480,00 Americans STILL dying from tobacco every year.
Lead and crap in water, bad roads, poor mass transit options, slow rail, because politicians won't fix infrastructure... /3
Lead and crap in water, bad roads, poor mass transit options, slow rail, because politicians won't fix infrastructure... /3
Health care. Student debt. Wage theft. Paid time off if sick. How long does this list get?
SO MANY problems have built up - soutions all blocked by big money bribing to keep profits up. /5
SO MANY problems have built up - soutions all blocked by big money bribing to keep profits up. /5
So people are fed up. They problems are obvious. The reasons they aren't solved is obvious.
Florida students got fed up, and are showing the way out. /6
Florida students got fed up, and are showing the way out. /6
Wisconsin. Occupy. Women's march. How often we are seeing people turning out because they are fed up. /7
A wave is building. Politicians who take money from interests, corporations, billionaires, etc to block soutions so these interests can profit are standing in front of that wave that is building. /8
THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE!
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