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BlueMTexpat

(15,374 posts)
Thu Jan 23, 2020, 08:20 PM Jan 2020

Why I Support Elizabeth Warren for President

She has demonstrated her ability to win elections, and offers a far more detailed and plausible approach to governing.

https://www.thenation.com/article/warren-president-endorsement-2020/

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n my view, Warren offers a far more plausible and more detailed case for how the next president must run the government once in office. Her “I’ve got a plan for that” is actually true: She and her staff tapped first-class teams of advisers from nationwide networks of progressive lawyers, economists, techies, educators, medical and military personnel, and environmentalists. In each of her plans, she has adroitly analyzed key issues (in readable, nontechnical language) and stated what her administration would do to address them. Whether you support her or someone else (or haven’t yet made up your mind), it’s well worth taking the time to pull a few of Warren’s plans off her website: Big Tech, Big Money, Washington corruption, affordable housing, and student loan debt relief are just a few of the topics on offer. Read what she’s actually proposing to do, not just in principle or as distant goals but with a clear road map that anchors each plan in legislation and executive action.

Warren has also been consistently effective in helping elect other Democrats—allies a president will desperately need. In 2018 alone, she raised $8 million for congressional candidates, then personally called all 172 of them to offer her support and went on to meet with 61 of them face-to-face to lay out how to best deploy that support. [emphasis mine] She firmly grasps the reality the media’s relentless, monocular focus on the presidential race misses: that in order to deliver bold change, the next president will need a Congress that shares (rather than checkmates) an agenda with the White House. She also understands—and here’s where her law school years really show—the critical importance of putting in place a federal judiciary vastly different from the one that has been appointed since this president took office.

Her opposition to Wall Street’s endless predations has also been consistent, courageous, and persuasive—and tied directly to her recognition that 40 years of growing income and wealth inequality won’t be reversed without the reregulation of finance. She has taken on not just bankers but also fellow Democrats, including Larry Summers, Tim Geithner, and, by implication, President Obama himself when he prioritized saving too-big-to-fail banks rather than stopping foreclosures on the homes of 10 million families. She played public and behind-the-scenes roles in crafting the still-unused powers of the Dodd-Frank Act to tame Wall Street and in creating the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Washington’s first new (and under the Democrats, demonstrably effective) regulator since the New Deal.

In her skill and dedication campaigning for other candidates; in doggedly shepherding tough, controversial bills through Congress; and in constructing a significant federal agency from scratch, Warren has demonstrated her ability to both win elections and govern.
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More at the link.

Excellent op-ed, IMO. It addresses so many of my own reasons for supporting Elizabeth Warren.
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
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Why I Support Elizabeth Warren for President (Original Post) BlueMTexpat Jan 2020 OP
she is our best hope to unite the big tent. the anti corruption president! Kurt V. Jan 2020 #1
I sincerely believe this. BlueMTexpat Jan 2020 #2
I am with you there Bettie Jan 2020 #6
I will ALWAYS vote anti-corruption. blm Jan 2020 #14
I think she would be a great president. An amazing woman. ms liberty Jan 2020 #3
5th Rec. sheshe2 Jan 2020 #4
She is ALL about US!!! BlueMTexpat Jan 2020 #8
Yes she is, Blue. sheshe2 Jan 2020 #10
Respect!! I could EASILY live with Elizabeth as our nominee, as you can prolly tell... InAbLuEsTaTe Jan 2020 #5
I've long felt that if Obama could go back and change an action, it would be to blm Jan 2020 #7
The part about the BlueMTexpat Jan 2020 #9
I've studied up on Obama's first 2 years. My Pet Orangutan Jan 2020 #12
That is how I understood it. blm Jan 2020 #13
My administration is the only thing between you and the pitchforks". My Pet Orangutan Jan 2020 #17
Shudder just remembering and worried that the next one blm Jan 2020 #18
I want to live in Elizabeth Warren's America. My Pet Orangutan Jan 2020 #11
So do I! BlueMTexpat Jan 2020 #19
What can I say? I agree. dchill Jan 2020 #15
I am still undecided, but leaning in Warren's direction. Mickju Jan 2020 #16
Good for you! BlueMTexpat Jan 2020 #20
 

Kurt V.

(5,624 posts)
1. she is our best hope to unite the big tent. the anti corruption president!
Thu Jan 23, 2020, 08:25 PM
Jan 2020
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BlueMTexpat

(15,374 posts)
2. I sincerely believe this.
Thu Jan 23, 2020, 08:26 PM
Jan 2020
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Bettie

(16,134 posts)
6. I am with you there
Thu Jan 23, 2020, 08:40 PM
Jan 2020

I LOVE her focus on corruption.

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blm

(113,119 posts)
14. I will ALWAYS vote anti-corruption.
Thu Jan 23, 2020, 10:36 PM
Jan 2020
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ms liberty

(8,614 posts)
3. I think she would be a great president. An amazing woman.
Thu Jan 23, 2020, 08:30 PM
Jan 2020
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sheshe2

(83,979 posts)
4. 5th Rec.
Thu Jan 23, 2020, 08:34 PM
Jan 2020

I love this part you highlighted.

In 2018 alone, she raised $8 million for congressional candidates, then personally called all 172 of them to offer her support and went on to meet with 61 of them face-to-face to lay out how to best deploy that support.


NOT ME, US!

Thank you Elizabeth Warren.

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BlueMTexpat

(15,374 posts)
8. She is ALL about US!!!
Thu Jan 23, 2020, 08:45 PM
Jan 2020

And that's why i love her!

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sheshe2

(83,979 posts)
10. Yes she is, Blue.
Thu Jan 23, 2020, 09:23 PM
Jan 2020
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InAbLuEsTaTe

(24,123 posts)
5. Respect!! I could EASILY live with Elizabeth as our nominee, as you can prolly tell...
Thu Jan 23, 2020, 08:37 PM
Jan 2020

Bernie/Elizabeth or Elizabeth/Bernie 2020!!
Either way, they're stronger together & can't be bought!!
Jump on the Bernie Bandwagon & join the revolution!!
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blm

(113,119 posts)
7. I've long felt that if Obama could go back and change an action, it would be to
Thu Jan 23, 2020, 08:41 PM
Jan 2020

take a tougher stance on financial industry than he did. I’m sure he must have felt restricted by the urgency of the crisis.

I think he sincerely believed he could make up for it by pushing through the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau under Warren’s guidance.

I think he respects her a lot for her intellect, her integrity, and her conviction. Plus....she really is a happy and persistent warrior.

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BlueMTexpat

(15,374 posts)
9. The part about the
Thu Jan 23, 2020, 08:46 PM
Jan 2020

"happy and persistent warrior" rings true!

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My Pet Orangutan

(9,340 posts)
12. I've studied up on Obama's first 2 years.
Thu Jan 23, 2020, 09:52 PM
Jan 2020

There was huge concern throughout about a double dip recession, something on the way amongst the EU's most vulnerable nations. The Administration's first priority was to avoid the rolling financial panics that characterized the Great Depression. They coddled the banks. Not good politics, but we will never how a more confrontational approach would have played out.

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blm

(113,119 posts)
13. That is how I understood it.
Thu Jan 23, 2020, 10:34 PM
Jan 2020
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My Pet Orangutan

(9,340 posts)
17. My administration is the only thing between you and the pitchforks".
Thu Jan 23, 2020, 11:05 PM
Jan 2020

Obama meeting Bank CEO's March 37, 3009

“This is like a patient who’s on antibiotics. Maybe the patient starts feeling better after a couple of days, but you don’t stop taking the medicine until you’ve finished the bottle.” On keeping the lending books open with bailout funds.

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blm

(113,119 posts)
18. Shudder just remembering and worried that the next one
Fri Jan 24, 2020, 12:49 AM
Jan 2020

will be upon us soon.

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My Pet Orangutan

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11. I want to live in Elizabeth Warren's America.
Thu Jan 23, 2020, 09:42 PM
Jan 2020
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dchill

(38,572 posts)
15. What can I say? I agree.
Thu Jan 23, 2020, 10:57 PM
Jan 2020
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Mickju

(1,807 posts)
16. I am still undecided, but leaning in Warren's direction.
Thu Jan 23, 2020, 11:03 PM
Jan 2020

I think she would make an excellent President.

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BlueMTexpat

(15,374 posts)
20. Good for you!
Fri Jan 24, 2020, 03:23 PM
Jan 2020

Thanks for the consideration.

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