"The Case For Elizabeth Warren"...

[druidity33]

Excellent article in a series by Vox...

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/1/15/21054083/elizabeth-warren-2020-democratic-primary

just a taste:

It was Warren, in her 2004 book The Two-Income Trap, who recast the state of the American middle class. Those rising incomes? The result of families sending women into the workforce, which meant they now needed to pay for child care and had fewer options for rescue if anything happened to the primary breadwinner. Those cheap consumer goods? They didn’t make up for the rising cost of housing, health insurance, and child care. And that informational plenty? It hadn’t stopped predatory industries from bilking ordinary Americans.

a little more:

In 2010, the Roosevelt Institute held a conference at which Warren spoke, and the think tank released an e-book, with the stirring title “Make Markets Be Markets.” Warren was, at this point, pushing for the creation of a consumer protection agency. Willing a new federal agency into being is the kind of political project that can take generations. Congressional chairs and even US presidents spend their careers fighting, and failing, to achieve more modest institutional reforms. Warren faced yet longer odds. Her power was informal. She wasn’t a US senator, a Cabinet secretary, or the president. She controlled no committees, commanded no voting blocs, owned no budgets, was the key vote on no legislation.

A long but good read... Enjoy!

[SunSeeker]

1. In a just world, she would be President. nt

[BeyondGeography]

2. Read this earlier

It’s a formidable piece on an even more formidable person. Highly rec’d.

[druidity33]

3. Damn. Did i repost?

I tried looking for it here and didn't see it...

Sorry?

[BeyondGeography]

5. Not at all!

Someone else sent it to me earlier and said I should post it. So much in there I didn’t know where to begin so I punted.

Thanks for posting.

[blm]

4. Great read. I always find it odd when some Dems claim that

Warren isn’t really a progressive or a Dem, when she can form policies that do exactly the job that needs to be done. And she does it with her use of pure logic.

Questioning her genuineness and her commitment to progressive policies sure seems to be popular with a few of the camps.

[Fiendish Thingy]

6. Highly recommended- excellent summary of Warren's background and qualifications nt

[blm]

9. I wish more fair minded people who still don't know her take the time

to read in-depth reporting about who she REALLY is.

[sagesnow]

7. True This- What the next Democratic President will face:

"The next Democratic president is likely to face a Senate where Mitch McConnell remains majority leader, and even if Democrats manage to take back the gavel, the most optimistic outcome is a slim majority with the hinge vote being West Virginia’s Joe Manchin or Alabama’s Doug Jones — and that’s before taking the filibuster into account. It is possible, perhaps probable, that the president’s primary power will come through their control of the executive branch. Warren is the candidate who would be most interested in, knowledgeable about, and effective at wielding it."

Great article. Thanks for posting this.

[blm]

10. I didn't realize how adept she has become at process.

That’s some mad skills.

[highplainsdem]

8. Ezra Klein has been retweeting some of the comments on that piece of his. Here:

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Since Klein liked these enough to retweet them, I thought you might like to see them, too.