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Susan T's avatar

Maybe. But it would probably not be only her making the decisions. I have seen people who had great ideas get railroaded into doing what the moneygrubbers want. What is the MIC?

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The Revolution Continues's avatar

The Military-Industrial Complex. US Greens do not take any corporate money or PAC money (Political Action Committees--groups of rich people/corporations' money). Dr. Stein has spoken at length about shutting down the war machine/MIC, disarming the nuclear arsenal, and putting our tax dollars to use in building up the people, not trying to explode the planet.

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Susan T's avatar

I don't live in the US. I would vote for her if I did, but I still am not sure that one person or even one party can really change things all that drastically. We need another system. One that can escape the threats and intimidation of AIPAC and other money grubbers.

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The Revolution Continues's avatar

You're right. We need a Revolution. I see wiping the duopolists (Democrats and Republicans) off the map as a much needed first step. Take the money out of politics in the US and regulate the billionaires and tax them until their pips squeak goes along with that first step, too.

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DomeLord's avatar

What sort of a revolution is it that would leave the Rothschilds in control of the global money supply? They and their usurious money system are most definitively the fundamental problem.

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ikester8's avatar

What the central banking model boils down to is theft and usury and institutionalized corruption. Of course, most of what we decry is institutionalized corruption of one sort or another.

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DomeLord's avatar

The exponentially increasing 'debt' for those countries and their populations trapped in the usury game are made to do absolutely stupid things to get their [imaginary] money to continue existing on Planet Rothschild since everything has been carefully monetised. They try to get out of debt by borrowing more [imaginary] money (at interest). Bit like a thirsty human drinking sea water. Then there's the total trashing of the ecosystem for monetary gain & all the rest of the nonsense we get up to because of the Rothschild system and I include israel and the threat of WW3 in that.

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Susan T's avatar

When I lived and worked in Denmark a long time ago, a huge part of my salary went to taxes. But dental, medical, daycare and more were paid for. They had a system of taxation where the more money you earned, the more your taxes went up until it didn't make sense to earn any more money because most of it would be taxed. There is a name for that system, but I can't remember it. Unfortunately, I think they may have changed that system. Denmark has been sadly influenced by the US. I realized that the shit had hit the fan a long time back when I saw cops beating up protesters at a gathering of politicians regarding the climate. When I lived there, I got kicked out of a park for picking the flowers. I was also drinking wine, but that was not the problem. It was picking the flowers that really got him riled up.

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Richard Seager's avatar

Social democracy I guess. Or the Nordic Model

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_model

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Feral Finster's avatar

"They had a system of taxation where the more money you earned, the more your taxes went up until it didn't make sense to earn any more money because most of it would be taxed. There is a name for that system, but I can't remember it. "

Progressive taxation.

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bill wolfe's avatar

progressive tax system.

Social democracy.

Picking flowers? Privatization.

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Deena Stryker's avatar

ALAS, YOU CAN'T TAKE THE MONEY OUT OF POLITICS. ANYMORE THAN YOU CAN TAKE IT OUT OF THE SUPPLY OF FOOD -- OR ANYTHING ELSE!

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gypsy33's avatar

Hi TRC

Jill Stein’s had my vote all along. It’s a matter of conscience.

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