Rep. Adam Smith:

Joe Biden was not picked in 2020 because he was the only person that could beat Trump. He was picked because he was the only person that could beat Bernie Sanders…

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    As long as Citizens United stands and corporations can directly pay politicians the people will never win again, whether they realize it or not.

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      My top issue has been get money out of politics since I was 18 (like ~15 years ago). It blows my mind it never even cracks the top 20 for most Americans

      We’re simply too dumb at the moment. We need to somehow educate the population… very quickly. But we should expect anything we say to be labeled PC, CRT, woke, etc. We should pick something and stick with it and defend it - not shy away and cower as we have been doing

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        Hopefully its anecdotal but a lot of the people I talk to at work seem to think the government should be run like a business. So that should speak to intelligence.

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      We need a social movement. I was listening to the latest RevLeft episode, and they talked about a coalescing of third parties to work together, I thought it was an interesting suggestion.

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        lol sure, maybe this will be the time when leftists stop fighting eachother and join forces to stop fascism and capitalism for like the first time ever.