"Over the last five decades, there has been a transfer of $50 trillion from the bottom 90 percent in our country to the top 1 percent.

This isn’t simply a byproduct of free market capitalism, it’s a soulless shakedown of America’s working class. MW

The economy has not been doing well for years.

As an example, "The 2017 tax cut gave 83 cents of every dollar to the richest corporations and richest people. The corrupt alliance of corporate and government power has hijacked our government, destroyed our middle class, eroded our democracy, and is robbing us of a liveable future." MW

The functioning of our government is largely for the short-term profit maximization of huge corporate entities.

Our government "should be humanitarian values that are at the core of the idea that we are to be a government of the people by the people for the people." MW

The division in this country is not between the Right and the Left.

The division in this country is between the powerful and the powerless MW

"The immigrant story of today contains no less richness, variety, and contribution than it did a hundred or two hundred years ago. Immigrants to this country continue to be contributors to our very lifeblood as a nation. 

"Both documented and undocumented immigrants are 46% less likely than native-born U.S. citizens to commit a crime or be incarcerated." MW

“Millions of American mothers are deeply concerned for their children – for their health, their safety, and their ability to get a higher education. Many mothers are grieving their children – including those whose children were lost to gun violence." MW

"Earlier this year the government notified 30 million Americans of cuts to their food stamps, at a time of steeply rising costs. Too bad we can’t afford to feed people. But hold on — military aid to Ukraine thus far equals an entire year of food stamps for 41 million Americans." RK

The biggest crisis at the border is the humanitarian crisis for thousands of people now fleeing some of the worst violence imaginable. And much of that violence has been exacerbated by U.S. foreign policy in Latin America over the last 50 years. MW