Progressives, Social Democrats might be able to get our policies and perspectives like Modern Monetary Theory through to a lot of new, local democratic candidates for the 2020 election with a rapid acting cascade of endorsements a couple months before democratic party nominations for 2020.

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Republicans and Democrats have, together, governed us miserably negligently. Their major laws, like Free Trade, have enabled job destruction, exposed us to war, terrorism, and mass shootings. They have never effectively combated the harms that have happened to us. They have left us with an electoral system so defective that it installed Trump.

Millions of Americans would be more secure and happier under a Social Democracy. Social Democracy is the Scandinavian compromise that has large, regulated private corporations (even billionaires) that cooperate with the regulating government. Social Democrats in America (such as Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren) are marginalized by the big money funding Republicans and Clinton - type Democrats and distraction by our trivia - focused media.

With sufficient social democrats elected we could repeal the tax cut, and end our wasteful wars. $1.5 - $2.5 trillion saved could be spent on decent wage jobs in federally funded infrastructure repair, etc. A lot of new candidates have emerged since Trump's election. A remote chance of identifying and electing such unknown, under - resourced candidates would exist, if prominent social democrats like Bernie Sanders were to launch a sudden endorsement cascade,

a couple months before the party nominations for the election of 2020. I'd vote for someone unfamiliar to me but endorsed by Sanders, or Warren, etc., over any Republican or Democrat party - endorsed candidate who refused to advocate for litmus test proposals. These would include repealing the tax cut , stopping the Afghan war entirely, and a major Congressional increase in the money supply (e.g., $2 trillion) dedicated to federal financing for living wage jobs in infrastructure repair.

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Authors Bio:

I could be Bernie Sanders older brother by similarity. I was born in Manhattan, 1940, he, about a year later, in Brooklyn. I too am a white male American. A retired college professor of philosophy. We both were born of Jewish parents. I was in Harlem CORE, He in Chicago CORE. We both went to the University of Chicago; me 58 - 62, he 60 - 64 (I think.) And yet, I don't recall meeting him! U. of Chicago had plenty of progressive activists despite being a bastion of Milton Friedman. He went into politics in Vermont in '68 (?) and I settled that year into a college professorship in northwestern Pennsylvania.

I've been a long-time minor activist in the civil rights, anti-war, pro feminism movements and taught critical thinking and social philosophy. I've been a unionist, on the Board of Directors of a food co-op, an ACLU chapter president, a CASA, and an elected Green Party Borough Councilman in my small hometown. I'm happily married, for over 50 years, to a woman significantly responsible for my modest success in life. We have two great kids and one grandchild, for whom we hope there is a decent future! Recently I've been pushing Modern Monetary Theory.

Politically in 60 years I've been everything from a Libertarian in extreme youth, through socialist but now at last I just call myself a Utilitarian and Pragmatist. It avoids useless rhetorical arguments.