Democratic Primaries
Related: About this forumMy dream candidate exists - and her name is Elizabeth Warren by Rebecca Solnit
Shes 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 wouldnt 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 shed 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 Im talking about Elizabeth Warren. She is, to me, a better candidate for president than I ever expected wed have.
My dream candidate wouldve 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 whos left in the race, and she is magnificent, and superheroes from Megan Rapinoe to Roxane Gay agree. Also, she pretty much turned Wells Fargos 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 its vicious and half a decade after she endorsed Occupy Wall Street. The strength of her candidacy is shown by how shes 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!!!
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Don't recent polls show her slipping to 3rd or 4th place?
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
crazytown
(7,277 posts)Bookmark this. Joe will win 4th place in IA, like Hillary won 3d in 2008. Pride comes before the a fall.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Demsrule86
(68,788 posts)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.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
oldsoftie
(12,665 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
blm
(113,131 posts)from the piece?
Perhaps you thought this was another polling thread?
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primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)No.
The OP says "... the front of the race".
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
blm
(113,131 posts)And the irrational Warren-hate continues.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)No.
Just stating the correct comment from the OP.
If the truth hurts, oh well.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
blm
(113,131 posts)about who Elizabeth is and what she represents apparently missed your attention.
I dont find truth a painful experience and I also dont target Warren and her supporters at every opportunity just because a positive thread about her popped up.
Yes, the irrational Warren-hate continues.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
turbinetree
(24,745 posts)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 .....................
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,125 posts)Bernie/Elizabeth or Elizabeth/Bernie 2020!!
Either way, they're stronger together & can't be bought!!
Jump on the Bernie Bandwagon & join the revolution!!
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided