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In reply to the discussion: Is there trolling going on here in regards to Obama? Like [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)But underneath it all, Elizabeth Warren has exciting ideas that will bring voters to the polls.
What new ideas does Hillary have?
I just posted a long explanation of my doubts about a Hillary candidacy. The Republicans will probably nominate Jeb Bush. Ugggh! A Hillary/Jeb contest will be decided based on a) who can most rely on the base to get out and b) who can excite some interest in his/her campaign.
Hillary will get some boost because she is a woman and she cares about women's issues. But Elizabeth Warren will get that too if she can be persuaded to run.
On economic issues, now that unions are not much of a factor for our side, the Republicans present what is in reality a losing point of view but what during their campaigns, they sell with utter conviction and success. The Republicans say, we're rich and if you vote for us, you might become rich like us. People fall for that. There is some spot in every American soul that firmly believes that everyone can have everything they want and if you don't have what you want, you are a loser. The Republicans sell themselves as the party of the winners. We used to argue that playing fair and helping each other was the way to a reasonable, solid economic life for everyone. Trade agreements and computers have made the middle class jobs harder to find. I don't think that Hillary has an argument for the Democratic way that is convincing. Certainly NAFTA has not had a fair-play or help-each-other outcome for Americans. It's made good jobs harder to find. Almost everything the average consumer buys is made in some other country. Increasingly our food is grown who knows where on what kind of contaminated soil under what kind of dirty, third-world conditions. And all this goes back to the corporate dominance in our politics. Hillary and Bill are virtually the poster children for the loss of jobs.
We need new faces and a new message that builds on our old themes but brings our old message into the 21st century. I just do not believe that Hillary has much new to say.
See my post #253 (I think) here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=6157628
It's really long, but it explains my doubts about Hillary. We need a really inspiring candidate.
As for the Native American ancestry. It does not surprise me that people think they have it and then find their DNA does not show it. My sister did her DNA. We have all sorts of ancestry from everywhere. Many, maybe most, Americans do.
Remember, there are lots and lots of Americans with Native American or African or Jewish ancestry who have no idea that they are one of THEM or that one of their ancestors was one of THEM. DNA is a tricky thing. Many of us are not what we thought we were -- and are the richer, culturally and in terms of health, for our inner diversity.