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Madeline vs. Marcus: Burn It Down, or Win It Now?

Same side. Same enemy. A real fight about the plan.

Same side. Same enemy. A real fight about the plan.
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Marcus, you and I want the exact same thing - working people who can actually afford dinner. But you are out here trying to kill one little local grocery tax. I want to know why we are not going after the corporations that jacked up the price of food in the first place.

Because, Madeline, I can win the tax fight this week. Your corporate-greed crusade? You are right about it. It is also a five-year war. And people are hungry right now, tonight, not in five years.

And in five years, when you have saved them a couple bucks on a local tax, the corporations will have kept right on raising the price of bread. You are bailing out a sinking boat with a coffee cup, Marcus. I want to fix the hole in the hull.

So we do both. Bail AND patch the hull. I am not against your war - I will march on those corporations right next to you. I am against telling a hungry family to wait for the revolution. We kill the tax on Tuesday. We go after the price-gougers on Wednesday.

...Okay. Tuesday and Wednesday. That is actually fair. I still think you are too patient with people who would happily starve us. But that is fair.

And I think you are gloriously impatient, and this movement needs both of us. We disagree on the how. We do not disagree on the who. That, right there, is the whole difference between us and them. I'm Marcus.

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