President of Social Security Works PAC. Endorsement events in *57* campaigns this cycle. Senior Issues Expert. Columbia Class of '68. Legendary Greaser.
Oct 10, 2021 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
@joshtpm OK, here’s view from over 50 years of shows in every state & now almost 20 years of elections on the ground.
It’s really always about us trying to move things forward toward a more egalitarian, multiracial democracy vs. them trying to maintain white male supremacy at all costs.
@joshtpm Issues kind of come & go, but underlying them all is the coalition of greedy business goons manipulating bigots to accumulate enough votes to make sure the rich don’t pay taxes & minorities stay in urban areas “where they belong.” So the real fight is urban/rural.
Sep 6, 2018 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
What is easily lost in the travails of the idiot in the WH is the underlying reality that the modern @GOP is completely bereft of policy solutions to any of our problems.
Cutting taxes for the top in an already strong economy may create a short term bump, but is a long term risk
Building walls when there is historically low immigration illegal or otherwise does absolutely nothing to deal with the immigrants who are already here.
They have no proposals to deal with an upcoming retirement security crisis other than cuts to earned benefits.
