I want a politics that widens the circle to include everyone, not one that shrinks the circle by throwing undesirables under the bus. I think this is basic. I am interested in a politics that is rooted at the sources of people's suffering. I am interested in a politics that attends to basic needs.
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I am interested in one that “feeds people in all of their hungers.”
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Shrinking the circle to exclude people solves nothing. It only creates more problems.
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The things that all people need are fairly basic and not that hard to provide.
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A politics that gives those in need what they need and employs the talents of the people enthusiastically instead of begrudgingly like the current system of wage labor. Politics that are centered on humanity, not business, profit, or some abstract and counterintuitive greater good that we suffer for
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Once the circle starts shrinking it can always shrink more
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Can we add “based on truth and facts” to that list please.
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"For the good of all, the poor first." AMLO
The US could learn a few things from Mexico
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I feel like part of the problem is there are core personal discrepancies people need to work out between themselves before engaging in politics so they stop turning the realm of compromise and power sharing to adjudicate questions there is no dignified way to answer politically
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It's always one of my favorite questions to see if a person is worth following.....even the undesirables? If they go well of course I mean not the undesirables 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩
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Politics won't work. The premise is wrong. www.modelingforchange.com/poliscarcity.html
Politics of Scarcity
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I don't know how so many people forgot the elementary lesson that is "safety in numbers."
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Newsom launches statewide task force to clear homeless encampments
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday announced the creation of a statewide task force aimed at dismantling homeless encampments on state property and expanding access to shelter and services. The State Acti…
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That should be a very uncontroversial concept! I don’t understand why it’s not.
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Yes please! I’m in!
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The only undesirables are the bigots. We should have made that a mental illness and outlawed white supremacy a long time ago.
It should be considered could abuse to teach it to your children.
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Amen.
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Houses for the houseless Food for the hungry Medicine for the sick
These should not be revolutionary ideals, but under capitalism they are.
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Sorry, but basic compassion is just too radical.
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The hypocrisy of mainstream Dems lecturing those of us who feel this way by saying “We have to be a big tent!” while actively throwing the most vulnerable people out of the tent… 🤦♀️
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Could not agree more. Don't know if you've ever read Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion by Fr. Greg Boyle (founder of Homebody Industries), but he wrote about doing exactly what you've just described.
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Yes this! Make the pie bigger! Not shrink it and hoard “my share!”
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well said
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The Democratic party as a whole fails on all of these fronts.
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At some point we either get serious or get screwed.
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The circle grows wider to include more people but it has to shrink a bit to exclude intolerant politics. That includes “fiscal conservatism” which has to go. The bigots that want us to abandon “undesirables” are always the “fiscal conservatives” and until we address that, our politics won’t improve.
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I absolutely do not want a politics that includes everyone. Some people are right-wing.
