The controversy—the hit job—by Elizabeth Warren against Bernie Sanders (and I have taken into account it was not just Warren) exposed the U.S. senator from Massachusetts as unworthy. I think it also revealed, just in case there was doubt, that she is in bed with the corrupt, corporate, Democratic Party Establishment.
I have never considered voting the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination to Elizabeth Warren. I have only been willing to vote the nomination to Bernie Sanders or Tulsi Gabbard. And, after asking myself if I would vote in the general election for a nominee Warren, I found I was not willing to do so.
I think Elizabeth Warren is running for president of the United States, here in 2020, as an alternative “progressive”—one who is considered more palatable to the corrupt, corporate, Democratic Party Establishment—to help stop the nomination from possibly being won by Bernie Sanders.
Warren’s expressed positions, particularly on the top domestic issue of healthcare, was aping Sanders for a while. Perhaps some people fell for it. I questioned who those people are. (I do not trust Working Families Party and Progressive Change Campaign Committee’s Adam Green due to their endorsements of Warren.)
The reason why I oppose Warren came before she jumped into the 2020 presidential race.
Instead of running in 2016, Warren signed a letter in 2014 which encouraged Hillary Clinton to run for U.S. president.
Instead of endorsing Bernie Sanders, to whom she supposedly is more closely aligned politically, and before the March 1, 2016 Democratic primary in Massachusetts, which Hillary Clinton apparently won by small margins of +17,019 raw votes and +1.40 percentage points, Warren was silent.
After the last contest ended in June 2016, Warren went on Rachel Maddow’s MSNBC program and endorsed Clinton.
During the general-election period, Warren passed the time trying to out-tweet Donald Trump on Twitter.
After the general election, with the Dakota Access Pipeline was being protested at Standing Rock, Warren was silent until the protests were nearly over.
In 2017, rather than endorse Dennis Kucinich, Warren endorsed Richard Cordray—a corporatist and the man who held the position that should have been hers in Barack Obama’s administration—for the 2018 Democratic nomination for Governor of Ohio. (Cordray lost.)
In 2019, Warren announced she would run for president of the United States, in 2020, and spent months—including on the debate stage—aping Bernie Sanders on policies especially related to domestic. She was for Medicare for All. And Warren looked really good until early-November. (I actually thought she would end up the nominee and posted it here: “Anticipating and Predicting Election 2020”.) And then, during that same month, she pulled away from Medicare for All and, soon after, her poll numbers headed south.
One does not have to read all these reasons. Just consider Warren signed that letter encouraging Hillary Clinton to (while strongly asserting she would not) run for president of the United States. My initial reaction, at the time, was that Warren is not interested in the presidency of the United States. That not every politician wants to eventually become president of the United States. What came after, beginning in 2016, revealed to me something undeniably obvious.
Elizabeth Warren is not a leader.
Yes—that is true, Elizabeth Warren. But, there is more.
Elizabeth Warren will not be president of the United States.
Yes—that is obvious. But, there is one more observation.
Elizabeth Warren is not a true progressive.
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I will share this related piece, one that is exceptional, by Caitlin Johnstone.
Here is the link: #CNNIsTrash Trends As Pushback Grows Against Oligarchic Election Meddling.
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The new Joe Rogan Experience video of the host welcoming Jimmy Dore, on Tuesday, January 14, 2020, dropped Thursday afternoon. Here it is:
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