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In reply to the discussion: Let's let our senators know that we want them to get tough with the Republicans -- for a change! [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Btw, I would have voted for Warren, but neither she nor I thought Bernie was the right stuff. A strong, inspiring, authoritarian speaking style is not enough. Such a shame since since destroying the billionaire class before it destroys us is at the top of my own list of priorities.
Although I've always been a strong liberal, you might be interested in knowing that Warren was a Republican for decades, right through and past the Reagan era, until the Republican Party finally, finally got too crazy for her in the 1990s. So, an independent thinker and not given to political bigotry, she moved to the Democratic Party to vote her beliefs and oppose extremism on the right. As a Democrat she has, hardly surprisingly, consistently been among the most conservative voters in our congressional caucuses.
How some people can admire Warren and at the same time insist there is no such thing as centrist, much less conservative, progressivism I can't imagine.
Warren and Bernie -- two very different ideologies. Two very, very different personalities. Two very different degrees of competence.