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BeckyDem

(8,361 posts)
Tue Dec 31, 2019, 09:57 AM Dec 2019

My dream candidate exists - and her name is Elizabeth Warren by Rebecca Solnit

She’s overcome misogyny, billionaires’ wrath, and media smears to get to the front of the race, and she brings a special brand of Big Structural Mom Energy



Tue 31 Dec 2019 06.15 EST
Last modified on Tue 31 Dec 2019 06.24 EST

If I was going to invent a dream candidate, she would be grounded in small-town, rural or heartland America but able to hold her own in the citadels of power on the coasts. She would comfort the afflicted with the same passion with which she afflicts the comfortable, and she would understand the causes of those afflictions and have good ideas about how to remedy them. She would be moved by compassion but wouldn’t ask us to rely on compassion; she would have tangible strategies for widening our distribution of income, healthcare, education and opportunity, and she would be smart about the intersections of race, gender, class and the rest.

She would have been around long enough to remember that since the 1980s the government has dismantled a lot of systems that made us more safe and more equal, and she’d be fresh enough to imagine new ways out of the consequences of that catastrophic dismantling. Also she would have to be funny and have big plans to address climate change. OK, she already exists, and I’m talking about Elizabeth Warren. She is, to me, a better candidate for president than I ever expected we’d have.

My dream candidate would’ve been a woman of color with all these qualities, and my dreamiest dream candidate would be a woman of color with Medusa hair who could turn the entire Republican Senate to stone with a glance, but Warren is who’s left in the race, and she is magnificent, and superheroes from Megan Rapinoe to Roxane Gay agree. Also, she pretty much turned Wells Fargo’s CEO into stone in a 2016 Senate banking committee hearing, more than a decade after she became one of the most outspoken experts telling Wall Street why it’s vicious and half a decade after she endorsed Occupy Wall Street. The strength of her candidacy is shown by how she’s made it to the front of the race despite misogyny from across the political spectrum, the wrath of the billionaires pouring money – and themselves – into the race, and the smears and distortions of the mainstream media.

Really I see her as a combination of three superpowers: wonkiness, radicalness and what for lack of a better term I would call Big Structural Mom Energy. The wonkiness is how she set new standards in primary campaigns with those famous plans – far more detailed, with the costs accounted for, than was usual before she arrived. The depth with which she understands the economic system – taxes, banks, bankruptcies, credit cards, home and student loans, redlining – is the depth with which she can change it.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/31/2020-dream-candidate-elizabeth-warren-democrats?CMP=share_btn_tw

Warren 2020!!!

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
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My dream candidate exists - and her name is Elizabeth Warren by Rebecca Solnit (Original Post) BeckyDem Dec 2019 OP
"the front of the race" ??? left-of-center2012 Dec 2019 #1
4th place? crazytown Dec 2019 #3
And Joe will win South Carolina ...doubt she or Bernie will take any delegates... Demsrule86 Dec 2019 #7
Well I guess when there's a dozen running, 3 or 4 IS the "front" oldsoftie Dec 2019 #4
She's still in the front pack. And, is that ALL you gleaned blm Dec 2019 #6
"She's still in the front pack" left-of-center2012 Dec 2019 #8
Lol. Got it. That IS all you want to glean from the piece. blm Dec 2019 #9
"the irrational Warren-hate continues" left-of-center2012 Dec 2019 #10
Well, it IS all you chose to mention, as the truth in the article blm Dec 2019 #11
Yepper spot on............................. turbinetree Dec 2019 #2
While Bernie is my "Dream Candidate," Elizabeth comes in a close 2nd for many of the reasons stated. InAbLuEsTaTe Dec 2019 #5
 

left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
1. "the front of the race" ???
Tue Dec 31, 2019, 10:02 AM
Dec 2019

Don't recent polls show her slipping to 3rd or 4th place?

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crazytown

(7,277 posts)
3. 4th place?
Tue Dec 31, 2019, 10:21 AM
Dec 2019

Bookmark this. Joe will win 4th place in IA, like Hillary won 3d in 2008. Pride comes before the a fall.

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Demsrule86

(68,351 posts)
7. And Joe will win South Carolina ...doubt she or Bernie will take any delegates...
Tue Dec 31, 2019, 10:27 AM
Dec 2019

But I actually think Iowa and New Hampshire will be a wash- and for Sanders and Warren New Hampshire is really important-for Joe not so much...everyone gets delegates...than comes super Tuesday where Biden beats the crap out of the other candidates...and it becomes clear to everyone (now in denial), he will be the nominee. Then I hope the nasty smears against our nominee ends at least from our side.

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oldsoftie

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4. Well I guess when there's a dozen running, 3 or 4 IS the "front"
Tue Dec 31, 2019, 10:22 AM
Dec 2019
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blm

(112,920 posts)
6. She's still in the front pack. And, is that ALL you gleaned
Tue Dec 31, 2019, 10:23 AM
Dec 2019

from the piece?

Perhaps you thought this was another polling thread?

😗

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left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
8. "She's still in the front pack"
Tue Dec 31, 2019, 12:03 PM
Dec 2019

No.
The OP says "... the front of the race".

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blm

(112,920 posts)
9. Lol. Got it. That IS all you want to glean from the piece.
Tue Dec 31, 2019, 06:52 PM
Dec 2019

And the irrational Warren-hate continues.

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left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
10. "the irrational Warren-hate continues"
Tue Dec 31, 2019, 09:38 PM
Dec 2019

No.
Just stating the correct comment from the OP.

If the truth hurts, oh well.

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blm

(112,920 posts)
11. Well, it IS all you chose to mention, as the truth in the article
Tue Dec 31, 2019, 11:19 PM
Dec 2019

about who Elizabeth is and what she represents apparently missed your attention.

I don’t find truth a painful experience and I also don’t target Warren and her supporters at every opportunity just because a positive thread about her popped up.

Yes, the irrational Warren-hate continues.

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turbinetree

(24,632 posts)
2. Yepper spot on.............................
Tue Dec 31, 2019, 10:15 AM
Dec 2019

lets ask all the centrist and moderates in the race what they think of this reporting that Lawrence O'Donnell did last night......................on the 2017 tax scam....................she has plan for that tax scam and what corporations and billionaires/ millionaires are doing., scamming the public....................and just maybe taking a look at what the Treasury Department is / has doing has for the last 40 years....................ever since Reagan....................

And yes, she is the front runner.......................it is amazing how the media and others try to marginalize her..............but I digress.........................

So lets watch how the US Treasury and the Paul Ryan/ Mitch McConnell and the Impeached Traitor 2017 tax scam in the below video...............and then one has to ask which candidate supports this stuff......................and then we can have a conversation about bankruptcy bills .....................




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InAbLuEsTaTe

(24,110 posts)
5. While Bernie is my "Dream Candidate," Elizabeth comes in a close 2nd for many of the reasons stated.
Tue Dec 31, 2019, 10:23 AM
Dec 2019

Bernie/Elizabeth or Elizabeth/Bernie 2020!!
Either way, they're stronger together & can't be bought!!
Jump on the Bernie Bandwagon & join the revolution!!
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