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Political Theorist from the University of Cambridge. Author of The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy: The Way is Shut

Valparaiso, IN

Joined April 2009

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Benjamin Studebaker

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My first book is out! Our economic system is failing our people, and our political professionals are wasting our time, money, and energy on false solutions and failing strategies. We need to confront this situation instead of hiding from it. Out in paperback, links below!

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Benjamin Studebaker

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When Elizabeth Warren calls Medicare For All a "long-term" goal, that's code to rich people for "this is all pretend"

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Compare the mayors: Bernie Sanders started a land trust in Burlington, providing affordable housing to poor and working people for decades. Pete Buttigieg forced poor people in South Bend to pretty up their homes, and if they couldn't afford to do so, he bulldozed them.

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AOC is wrong to refuse to work with Ted Cruz If the left can only work with people it considers personally virtuous it will never get anything done Of course, if your goal is to use a left aesthetic to build a political career, getting things done doesn't matter

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Either she's stupid, or she thinks we are

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We reacted to Trump like we reacted to 9/11 Instead of thinking about why people don't like us and trying to fix it, we decided "they hate our freedom", our democracy, our diversity, and we went on a relentless, stupid, public crusade

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If AOC really believes it's 'privileged' to evaluate Biden through a long-term lens, she can't coherently prioritize climate change Good long-term climate policies often involve hurting poor and working people in the short to medium-term

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Benjamin Studebaker

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AOC arguing that if you're not a fascist you have nothing to fear from Twitter bans sounds like every argument for the Patriot Act I heard when I was a kid Twitter is not a reliable arbiter of speech, it is not a consistent arbiter of speech, it has no political legitimacy

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Please join me in calling on @Twitter to end the unjust suspension of @aimeeterese . #FreeAimee

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Most of the time, "abolish" becomes "privatise"

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The generational divide on Buttigieg: Millennials have seen people like Buttigieg bullshit their way into internships, universities, and jobs Boomers are the ones who give the Buttigiegs those jobs--they're the suckers who fall for these people again and again

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My parents--who are not very online and get most of their news from traditional media like the Chicago Tribune, WGN, and NPR--cannot understand why @BernieSanders isn't more aggressively differentiating himself from Elizabeth Warren. They say no one knows the difference.

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Benjamin Studebaker

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Left-wing opposition to free speech is based on two delusions: 1. We are, or might soon be, the ones who control the censor 2. We already have the truth and don't need to think anymore Censorship is a tool of the powerful and it produces stagnancy

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My dad's at a rehab facility, trying to regain mobility after brain surgery The rehab facility has a garden They won't let my mom walk with him in the garden due to COVID My mother & I can't even be in the room with him at the same time We are all fully vaccinated Why? Why?

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Benjamin Studebaker

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In class, I use Carter's appointment of Volcker as Fed chairman to date the start of neoliberalism in the USA Warren praises Volcker. Yet there are some publications that refuse to call Warren a neoliberal. How can they fight neoliberalism when they refuse to call it by its name

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Friend of mine studied Russian lit at uni She's taking a course through Coursera to keep it up She gets an email & discovers they're refusing to continue teaching the language Even during the Cold War, people learned Russian and read Nabokov and Tolstoy This is bigoted & lame

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See guys, what's happening in Myanmar, that's a coup In USA, the military protects the civilian government from protesters In Myanmar, the military deposes the civilian government and seizes power for a year See the difference? I know this is very difficult for some people

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But wait, we should forgive him because when city councillors complained, he "slowed down"

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Interesting how many folks want to make ad hominem attacks on Jimmy Dore rather than engage his strategic argument Why are they avoiding the argument? To protect AOC Why is protecting AOC more important than discussing M4A strategy? Because these folks don't care about M4A

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My dad died the day the Taliban retook Kabul When I was a boy, my father opposed the War in Afghanistan He opposed it instinctively, having lived through Vietnam Bush's 90% approval rating didn't matter He taught me that sometimes, everyone else is wrong I'll never forget it

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Benjamin Studebaker

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All but the very rich are descended from peasants, slaves, serfs, and exploited labourers of all kinds Focusing on chattel slavery as a unique evil subtly legitimates all of these other practices They are all pitched as "less bad", which is a quiet way of saying they are fine

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Benjamin Studebaker

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If you like my stuff, help this man:

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If we are going to defeat Trump and transform our country, it will take all of us.

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Benjamin Studebaker

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Nobody is going to be energized by an exemption from PAYGO Items like M4A have to be won by galvanizing the public You do that by fighting and being seen to fight, not by negotiating for obscure wonk concessions

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Benjamin Studebaker

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In the new book, Obama admits he pretended to understand theory for the social capital The thing is, the whole American elite is built on pretending to understand things it doesn't understand This starts in high school, where you learn how to get an A w/o doing the reading

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Benjamin Studebaker

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The harm reduction crowd: 1. Underestimates the harm Democratic presidents do in the near-term 2. Trusts Democratic candidates' stated intentions far too much 3. Ignores completely the long-term consequences of continuing to feed the trend that produced Trump in the first place

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I am viscerally repulsed by this establishment schtik where you ignore all the questions and give canned two minute speeches full of manufactured emotion and empty of substance They both did it

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Benjamin Studebaker

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"Alienation drives racism" is a basic, core left position The journalists have so little background in political theory that they aren't even familiar with Bernie's position, let alone capable of engaging with it That's why the NYT journalists look so confused in that video

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Hating cultural conservatives isn't different from hating Muslims--many of whom are themselves cultural conservatives Blaming "whiteness" or Christianity isn't different from blaming Islam

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Benjamin Studebaker

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I saw a lot of people on here acting like the Floyd protests were transformational Now we find out today that Minneapolis is cutting police funding by just 1% For weeks, people have told me that Minny is meant to be THE success story We need to reckon with the uselessness

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Joe Biden speaks to the liberal fantasy that you can go up to poor & working people, give them a big Bill Clinton "I feel your pain" and then get their vote while taking their job security and welfare benefits away

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As with 9/11, our reaction to Trump has done more damage to our country than Trump himself has done Much, much more It's not close, really

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By the way--the fact that NYT endorsed Klobuchar alongside Warren emphasises the reality that there is no substantive difference between those two

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What a time we live in--where protests and occupations are considered a threat to democracy, and entrenched elites funded by oligarchs are considered its life essence

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The workers need a movement which offends university-educated people relentlessly and unapologetically. Unfortunately, that probably includes you It definitely includes me They have to do it, our gag reflex is too strong

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If you haven't realized that AOC is Nancy Pelosi in a Che Guevara t-shirt, I don't know what to tell you

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My father died of prostate cancer today. He was 67.

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Whatever you think about the theoretical possibility of centering race/class simultaneously, as a strategy it has had discrete consequences It is undeniably the case that wokeness was purposefully used to splinter the nascent bloc that was forming around Bernie Sanders in 2016

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It's so repulsive when powerful members of congress put on over-the-top emotional displays, seeking sympathy from the very same public they have failed, again and again, to economically support during the pandemic

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@NathanJRobinson This very same argument was made by Hillary supporters in 2016 to shut down left critiques The function of this kind of argument is to shepherd people toward a centrist position, by making all the alternatives to centrism "Republican" or "right-wing"

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Modernity is obsessed with individuality precisely because modern individuals have no power We assert the meaningfulness of individual agency precisely because it's meaningless--by treating trivial acts as unacceptable offences, we hide our impotence from ourselves

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How to trick people into supporting centrism: Step 1. Cultivate a progressive/left audience by using aesthetic signifiers and coded language Step 2. Frame Sanders as not good enough for you. You're "to the left" of Sanders. We need to "push" him! Step 3. Be nice to Warren

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I've spent a lot of years in honors classes and at fancy universities Buttigieg is the smooth talker with no substance. Great networker, writes fluffy essays, fills his resume with internships, isn't actually good at anything important

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#WarrenEndorseBernie isn't going to happen, because Warren doesn't want Bernie to win, because Warren prefers Biden to Bernie

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Benjamin Studebaker

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To the folks who argued Biden would facilitate the growth of the left--doesn't it bother you that people are now making excuses for cabinet nominations they would have decried had they been made by Trump? Doesn't it bother you how much lower the expectations are now?

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The Bernie mittens meme illustrated just how much Bernie is something to be appropriated now Bernie's politics have been reduced to a harmless aesthetic which elites borrow from at will Defeated radicals become tools which elites can use to enhance their branding

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The thing that really bugs me about AOC--she poses as a leader of the left But she's destroying it, she's turning it into just another form of ideology She is confusing people I became left-wing to protect, people I encouraged to become part of the left That grinds my gears

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I support re-electing Trump with a senate controlled by the Democrats. Vote for the Democrats in senate races, but vote for Trump for POTUS Don't let Biden cut Social Security and do post-corona austerity deals. Lock the government up in unproductive partisan conflict

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AOC takes soft stances on things like M4A because she prioritizes moving up in the party If she took harder positions, her success would be tied to the success of the left within the party She wants to move up regardless of whether or not the left is successful

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Of course the STEM guy who owns this website thinks it's a good idea to replace a classical animal logo with a variable that exudes zero warmth, has no consistent meaning, can't be relied upon for anything

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Imagine being an Iowan and spending the whole day today watching as rich city slickers on the internet rip on you for being white

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Benjamin Studebaker

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Americans are so alienated from civic identity that wearing a mask is genuinely too much to ask That's not their fault--the state has spent decades creating this sad state of affairs. It nurtures division, corrodes the social state, and then pretends nothing has changed

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Barack Obama's Libyan intervention in 2011 caused more harm, by itself, than any individual Trump act No one knew they were voting for that intervention in 2008 It is not at all obvious that the Democrat will do less harm in the near-term And then there is the long-term...

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If you opposed the war on terror, how can you support calling your fellow citizens "terrorists"? I don't care what they've done That designation was invented to deny people rights How dare any ostensibly "left-wing" person use that term to describe anybody I don't care who

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Jimmy Carter (96 today) voted for Bernie and calls our country an "unlimited oligarchy" By appointing Volcker--who raised rates and created the unemployment that swept Reagan into office--Carter sent us in that direction First POTUS since Coolidge to see inequality rise

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Glad to see the original @aimeeterese back on Twitter Welcome back

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Increasingly, the hegemonic American position on race is just old-fashioned black capitalism "patronize black businesses" The function is not liberation from oppression but the reification & reinscription of capitalist roles under the guise of a superficially radical aesthetic

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The Democratic establishment doesn't care about Tara Reade because MeToo was always a political tool for them--to be used when convenient and discarded when not They have the power to discard it We cannot wield it against them

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If we want Bernie to get stuff done, he has to win rural states the way FDR won them FDR won 59 senators in 1932. Then 69 in 1934. Then 75 in 1936. Then 69 in 1938. 66 in 1940. 57 in 1942 & 1944. You don't get there by telling the American people they are a bunch of deplorables

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The Left Case Against Supporting Joe Biden in the General Election

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The Left Case Against Supporting Joe Biden in the General Election

At the Democratic Convention, Bernie Sanders argued that the left should hold its nose and vote for Joe Biden: The future of our democracy is at stake. The future of our economy is at stake. The fu…

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Four forms of centrism: "Right" Populist Neoliberalism: Performative Nationalism (Trump) "Right" Technocrat Neoliberalism: Never Trump Republican (Romney) "Left" Technocrat Neoliberalism: Woke Wonk (Hillary) "Left" Populist Neoliberalism: Anarchist-Inflected Socialism (AOC)

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We built up all this energy for the $2k checks They were a major factor in the Dem victories in Georgia And now, instead of building on that, people want to have another impeachment debate It is a waste of political energy It betrays people in need They don't care

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Benjamin Studebaker

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Plenty of Buttigieg people will go to Sanders, just as plenty of Jeb people went to Trump These anti-establishment candidates don't have ceilings Most primary voters aren't ideological and want to back someone strong. The higher the number you put up, the stronger the vibe

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The Obama admin's willingness to consider privatising the post office solidified the narrative that the service is "failing" if it's unprofitable The postal service is meant to do work that is necessary but not lucrative Dems failed to articulate this They reap what they sow

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The debate about whether Dems underperformed because they were too centrist or too radical confuses the issue The Dems are economically too centrist and they are socially too radical You can do nothing for people or you can be condescending, but not both at once

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Benjamin Studebaker

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Why isn't Bernie Sanders questioning the CEO of Robinhood in front of congress? Why do we have to rely on Elon Musk to get answers to these questions? We have a great story about a rigged economic system and we're letting the king of capitalism play the role of public advocate

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The less people can do, the more they talk, and the more they pretend talking is doing

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I am taking March off from podding This is too depressing and I need some time to think

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Twitter has pulled a double motte and bailey for a long time Accuse it of violating free speech, and it will tell you it's a media company, and it's entitled to regulate speech Accuse it of not regulating speech, and it will tell you it's a utility, and it's not responsible

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Bernie Sanders gave us a language of economic rights that had the potential to cut across cultural divisions The rejection of Bernie is the rejection of those economic rights in favour of the racialised discourse of 2014 That discourse has no potential to deliver M4A

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Here's an idea for the Sanders campaign: Warren should not have any offices in a Sanders administration Better yet, Bernie should find somebody to primary her in 2024. What's @marisadefranco doing these days? #NeverWarren

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Benjamin Studebaker

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The people who need the $2,000 don't care whose face is on the $20 bills the bank gives them when they cash the check The Tubman/Jackson debate ramps up culture war, making it harder for us to come together to demand this president actually give us something of real value

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I have decided not to return to What's Left. We did some good work, but it's time for me to move on to other things. I wish Aimee and the show well.

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The idea that a diverse cabinet will inspire people relies on the premise that a person's identity is in itself inspiring, regardless of whether that person accomplishes anything of value Biden's folks aren't just useless, they're harmful, and the harm they do will fuel reaction

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Warren is a proven liar: 1. Betrayed us on M4A 2. Plagiarised recipes to sell a Native American cookbook where she calls herself "Cherokee" 3. Said she was Republican in the 80s because she "wasn't political" when she wrote articles calling for deregulation

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The Dems will now claim to have won for all the reasons they underperformed, and this will be the rationale for continuing down an all-too-familiar path

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Most of the people calling USA a "failed state" would be singing a completely different tune if Hillary were POTUS The situation could be the same in every other respect, and they'd say "yas queen" Reports of the death of the hegemon are premature--we are so far from the end

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The Left Press is Failing Bernie Sanders

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Yesterday they said that the colonised peoples were "savage" and that they needed to be "civilised" Today they say that the workers are "racist" and that they need to be "educated"

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Why do otherwise educated people genuinely believe that we are on the doorstep of fascism? The American professional class has no understanding of the country it lives in, no understanding of the values of the people around them It's why they ran Bernie into the ground

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And I'm not just talking about Appalachian coal miners Consider the situation in India, where there is a direct conflict between poverty alleviation and containing emissions

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If every large protest has some risk of becoming violent, and every violent protest is "insurrection", then anyone who encourages protests is inciting violence, and anyone who encourages protesting can be labelled a criminal

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The idea that the head of state should be subject to the terms and conditions of a private company is fundamentally undemocratic

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Buttigieg always gets guff on race, but he wasn't good at anything:

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I want to be clear--I think this president has failed his supporters. His policies on taxes & healthcare deeply undermined their interests But I am not going to join in this fantasy that Trump poses a threat to democracy This would contradict my own research

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If the Dems actually help the American people, they won't have to worry about Trump running in 2024 They want to ban him from running because they don't intend to do what's necessary, politically, to prevent him from being competitive

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Remember when we were talking about demanding the state guarantee a fundamental right to healthcare? Now we switch back and forth between blaming and shaming ordinary people for coronavirus and blaming and shaming ordinary people for racism

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@nachdermas 1976! Make the Republicans deal with the second oil shock. Reagan won't happen

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I'm willing to consider voting for @kanyewest --if he comes out strong for Medicare-For-All

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Benjamin Studebaker

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"Get a job" is never an appropriate response to anything or anyone It's a refusal to look deeply into the structural causes of social problems

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Aimes has been thrown in Twitter prison for saying that Warren needs to be "beaten", i.e. defeated in an electoral campaign It's ridiculous and Twitter should be ashamed

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If you look at Morning Consult right now, Sanders gets a competitive share of everyone's second preference votes. He's the most popular second choice for Warren & Biden voters and he even gets a competitive share of Buttigieg & Bloomberg people Any and all dropouts help Bernie

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There are two types of people--those who understand that this is a great answer, the only kind of answer that can heal our country And those who don't

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This is the dystopia they want us to live in

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Is this the ultimate tiny house?

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Hillary running again would be great, because it would force everyone to confront how little the establishment has learned since 2016 The only thing better would be another doomed Jeb Bush campaign Let's heighten the contradictions

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I don't want to name the facility I'm not here to speak to the manager I just want to make the point that these still very common policies do nothing but hurt patients and the families of patients He still has cancer, and we can't be a family, and there's no good reason

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Imagine if Donald Trump accused his critics of "violence" for being rude about him on Twitter Public servants shouldn't tone police ordinary citizens who are understandably frustrated with the way things are going

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One of the things you learn from studying Rome: It is possible to have an inclusive, diverse elite while also having slavery & domination Indeed, an inclusive elite is an advantage insofar as diverse local elites help legitimate the system to the lower classes in the provinces

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They're trying very hard to automate trucking in part because truckers still have so much ability to disrupt supply chains Logistics are really important to capital If you're looking to use strikes as a political tool, having truckers & railway workers on side is essential

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Benjamin Studebaker

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When we agree to take personal responsibility for irreducibly collective problems (like coronavirus or climate change), we enable our collective institutions to do nothing If it's your job to cut your emissions, if it's your job to wear a mask, the state doesn't have to act

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The Democratic establishment has led us to where we are They had a hand in all the bad policy--welfare reform, '94 crime bill, '99 deregulation, Iraq, sequestration Their failures produced Trump Why would we seek unity with incompetent people who don't care about us?

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