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- All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
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Can everyday Americans please hurry up and connect the dots finally?
Everyday Americans are amongst the stupidest people I've ever met. Don't hold your breath.
While I won't argue against the ignorance of the 50th percentile, I'd encourage you to consider that for many it may not be willful.
By design, more and more people are forced to focus on their immediate needs. As more Americans than ever before live paycheck to paycheck with hardly a thousand dollars in savings, how can they justify spending time learning when they need to be at their second job so their kids don't go homeless?
If you write people off as stupid then the problem is intractable. You can't cure stupid. But you can inform the ignorant.
Who exactly do you think is voting for people like El-Sayed? Venezuelans perhaps?
What kind of take even is this?
My point could have been clearer.
I was talking about figuring out that billionaires are the actual enemy, everywhere..... it makes it pretty easy to figure out who's really on your side once you understand how capitalism actually works.
It doesn't matter who, it doesn't matter where. If there's a billionaire, there's a crime against the common man being committed. Period.
But what if I am one some day, Mr smarty human?
You have one candidate who says they refuse to take corporate money because they're here to serve the people and another candidate who says how is such a shame how the political system works and it should be changed but in the meantime that's the system and they'll take the corporate money while telling you to not get your hopes up about changing how the system works.
And somehow this is a close race...
Clearly there are a lot of dots for a significant portion of Americans to connect.