Our deeper fight is not between democrats versus republicans, although this is the narrative we’re constantly propagandized to believe.
Fueling our fears through dehumanizing, dividing, and distracting us has long been the strategy of the powerful for maintaining their power. These toxic forces don’t really care if a fascist crazy man is re-elected or if another neoliberal is elected — either way they believe that the status quo will be maintained and that they will retain their deadly power.
Which brings us to the imperative that we must not buy the propaganda of polarization that we’re relentlessly sold. We’re all needed in this great struggle to evolve and transform ourselves and our world.
The truth of our interconnectedness and our shared needs as planetary sisters and brothers cuts through the illusions of what appears to divide us — political party, religion, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, etc. — and instead unites us in our shared needs and struggle to birth a humane society and world. We’re truly all in this together.
May courage, integrity, truth, wisdom, vision, and consciousness override our fears and our illusions and compel us again and again and again to do the right thing — unite in the courageous and fiercely loving work that is in the highest good for all of life. 🙏 Molly
"If you can't build grassroots support for your candidacy, you have no business running for president. The American people are sick and tired of the power of billionaires."
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Sen. Bernie Sanders late Friday strongly condemned reports that billionaire businessman and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg—who is mulling a late entry into the 2020 Democratic presidential primary—spent over $30 million out of his own pocket on a single week of television ads set to air as soon as Monday.
"I'm a little old-fashioned. I believe in democracy—one person, one vote," Sanders, a Democratic presidential candidate, said in a statement. "I'm disgusted by the idea that Michael Bloomberg or any other billionaire thinks they can circumvent the political process and spend tens of millions of dollars to buy our elections."
"It's just the latest example of a rigged political system that we are going to change when we're in the White House," Sanders added. "If you can't build grassroots support for your candidacy, you have no business running for president. The American people are sick and tired of the power of billionaires, and I suspect they won't react well to someone trying to buy an election."
As the New York Times reported, "the scope of Mr. Bloomberg's ad buy is staggering."....
Sanders' presidential campaign, which has rejected billionaire cash and is fueled almost entirely by small-dollar donations, reportedly plans to spend heavily on television advertisements in the first four 2020 primary states with the goal of reaching people who have become disaffected with the political process.
On Tuesday, as Common Dreams reported, Sanders became the fastest presidential candidate in history to reach four million individual campaign contributions.
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