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In reply to the discussion: Keith Ellison: [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)Ron Dellums, one of my political heroes, was in Congress for decades and once chaired the Armed Services Committee. He was never an insider.
Wayne Morse, the legendary antiwar Democrat from my childhood home in Oregon, was a senator for 24 years. He was never an insider.
Neither was William Proxmire.
Neither are John Lewis, Maxine Waters, Al Franken, Tammy Baldwin or Sherrod Brown.
To be an insider, you need to see the status quo as something we're always going to be stuck with. You have to have given up on any notion of real change or of any significant political realignment for the better in the forseeable future.
Doesn't mean you're a monster, just means felt it necessary to shelve a lot of your dreams and perhaps your clarity of vision.
None of that applies to Warren.