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"There is really only one issue left in this race:
Donald Trump. ...
Your vote may be driven by some other issue, but it is still a vote for or against Trump in his totality. If you say 'I’m voting for Trump because I’m mad about inflation,' I’m sorry — you may be mad about inflation, but if inflation makes you vote for fascism, it’s not about inflation anymore."
~ Paul Waldman
https://paulwaldman.substack.com/p/there-is-only-one-issue-left-in-this
"The US top rate of tax in 1944 was 97%. The postwar top rate from 1945-63 was 94%, and it was 70% from 1965-80. This was the period of the largest expansion of the US economy in the nation's history."
Taxing the rich is the most Conservative policy you can think of, but somehow conservatives keep claiming that is a radical Socialist idea. 🤷♂️
https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/15/piketty-pilled/ by @pluralistic
WE VOTE BECAUSE WE GIVE A SHIT.
IF YOU DON’T VOTE, YOU DON’T REALLY GIVE A SHIT.
If you don’t vote when you can, you don’t get to take up space in my comments. Cause this place is for people who put caring into action, not posers who like theory more than living, breathing people.
Trump.
Would.
Be.
Worse.
That’s it. That’s all that matters for the next three weeks.
Trump would be worse for Americans. Trump would be worse for Palestinians. Trump would be worse for the world.
We’re at the doorstep of fascism in this country, right now, in the next three weeks.
We will get Harris in the White House and then we will work to push her to the left because we will still have a democracy where we can.