The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
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An Economy that Works for All: Learning from the UK's Labour Manifesto
What Bernie Sanders is not talking about is a more thorough transformation of the economy that would democratize wealth and how it is created – like the UK Labour Party is proposing.
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90% of American Households Lost $17,000 In Wealth to the 1% in 2016
America has always been great for the richest 1% and it’s rapidly becoming greater, as multi-millionaires shifted nearly $4 trillion in wealth away from the rest of the nation to themselves last year.
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Our Jobs Are Disappearing
We need a guaranteed income to ensure that the benefits of 60 years of U.S. prosperity go to all Americans – not just to the few who know how to redistribute the nation’s wealth.
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Americans Are Enslaved By the Most Dependent Of Us All – the Wealthy
We have been programmed to believe that capital takes preeminence over humanity, that those with capital are entitled to be the arbiters of everyone’s success or failure – and that capital determines one's worth.
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Meet the Extreme Super Rich – These 80 People Own More Than the World’s Poorest 3.6 Billion
The reason the wealth of the richest has doubled since 2009 is because “it’s not a recession, it’s a robbery.”
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How Long Can the Rich Keep Cheating the 99%?
America gained $16 trillion in financial wealth over the past 5 years, though most went to the very top economic rungs.
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We Are All Connected: Hearing The Message of Indigenous Tribes
In the current United States, from the Indigenous point of view, it is as though a chief can have 99 buffalo for himself while he looks down at the community trying to live on one buffalo. This is a model for community or Tribal extinction.
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Five Misconceptions About our Tattered Safety Net
More than any other issue over the next four years, we need to address the growing divide in our nation, to tone down our winner-take-all philosophy, to provide job opportunities for people who want to contribute to society.
