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Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
10. Well, for one she was honest enough to give figures,
Sat Jan 4, 2020, 08:11 AM
Jan 2020

which focused attention on them. That would have invited scrutiny of the costs even if they'd been reliable.

She could have copied Sanders and Trump: promise far better for far less to get elected. Period.

But the other big problem was her honest and courageous explanation that it called for outlawing workplace insurance and limiting the rights of all for the good of all.

For excellent reason Sanders stays the hell away from that reality of universalist systems, no matter how often interviewers try to get him to speak honestly, instead tries to convince people public schools and the roads they drive are socialism. (Tell a lie often enough, suckers believe it.)

In any case, Warren is honest and courageous, and I admire her for that. It's the extremist elimination of our right and freedom to choose for ourselves, even to have alternatives, that cost her my support for president. I like her for the cabinet or possibly VP, which Biden wanted her for in 2015. Or always as a leader in the senate helping make things happen.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
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