What will the Warren Presidency look like? [View all]

[baldguy]

In spite of her protestations to the contrary, and in spite of her repeated, outspoken support for Hillary Clinton, there are some people who would like promote Elizabeth Warren for President. These same people love to present themselves as more-liberal-than-thou, yet they blindly accept RW memes promoted by the corporate media that "both parties are the same", literally hate the mainstream, center-left Democratic Party (using epithets like "Third Way", "Republican-lite", "Wall Street party", etc etc ....), despise any Democratic candidate who might actually have a chance to win in a general election - such as Hillary Clinton, belittle any & every attempt by real Democrats to support the party and it's policies, and are happy to enthusiastically promote whatever current RW lie about Democrats & the Democratic Party.

How would these faux Democrats respond to an actual Warren Administration? Well, we have the last couple Democratic administrations to go by: honest leftists collectively breathed a sigh of relief when both Bill Clinton & Barack Obama won the White House, but the faux Democrats were instead disappointed. While most people - including non-ideological conservatives - were looking forward to a potentially bright future with both the new Presidents, the fauxnies were taking queues from the RW crazies to try to undermine it. In large part, they succeeded, unfortunately.

In spite of the fact that, while not perfect (and it never is & never will be), Clinton presided over the longest & biggest economic boom in American history that helped tens of millions of Americans. The fauxnies only view him as a tool of the corporatocracy. The view just undermined the Democrats power & influence, and gave the Republicans a stage to promote their jihad, thereby allowing the corporatocracy to gain more power.

Obama's historic win in 2008 & reelection in 2012 again gave the majority of Americans something to look forward to. And in his arrogant, ignorant air of superiority, Bill O'Reilly has voiced the basic problem of the RW: Republicans are afraid of black people. (And well they should be, given the demographic realities of the coming decades.) But the fauxnies err again in taking up the RW's distaste of black people and the cause of the the RW's inherent racism to attack, degrade & attempt to tarnish Obama's many, many accomplishments. Of course, they spout endless denials of this, but they can't alter the fact that the original source of every one of their criticisms is nothing more than the color of his skin.

So how would this paradigm play out under a Warren Administration? Again, with the election of the first woman to the highest office in the land, the great majority of the country will look forward to it, seeing the country as being poised for a bright future. This is one of the general commonalities of every new Democratic Presidency. Of course the RW would have rumblings against her, as they always do for any Democrat. And they'll try using the same bullshit misrepresentations they use now against her: that she's a communist; that she lied about her Native American ancestry; that she's the same old "Tax & Spend Liberal" as every other Democrat, etc etc etc. But President Warren would soon realize that she not only needs to lead, but she needs govern, as well. And being the very, very smart person that she is, she'd do what she can to get things through Congress and actually sign some bills to help people.

This pragmatic approach would ultimately doom her with the very same fauxnies who who now are praising her & urging her to run. And, of course they'll go to the very same RW propaganda sources they go to now to get their opinions & complaints to trash a Democratic President. Ironically, it'll most likely come with the failure of comprehensive Wall Street Reform; there will be some small steps in the right direction - which will inevitably piss off the RW, but there will be no major changes in the fundamental way the finance industry does business - which will piss off the fauxny Left. And in their attacks on President Warren, fauxny Left will feel no hesitation to use talking points from the worst the RW propaganda machine has to offer. (They never have shown any hesitation so far. Have they?) Rand Paul will polish the turd of his evil ideology; the fauxnies will have a new hero, again. Glenn Greenwald will take some standard business practice that's been going on since the Eisenhower Administration that nobody has ever had a problem with before, try to paint it as something unsavory & immoral, then lay it all at the feet of Elizabeth Warren. The fauxnies will lap it up.

In short, in the eyes of the fauxny Left, the very act of governing the country makes a candidate unfit to govern the country - no matter how successful they are. And that goes double if the candidate is popular, reasonable & well-spoken. Real Democrats and real progressives recognize that such an attitude is not just contrarian, it's actually destructive to democracy and to the desire to enact real liberal policies into law.

Republicans just love that shit. Just keep that in mind in these last few days before Election Day.