Democratic Primaries
Related: About this forumWhy 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 Ive 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 havent yet made up your mind), its well worth taking the time to pull a few of Warrens 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 shes 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 Democratsallies 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 medias 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 understandsand heres where her law school years really showthe 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 Streets endless predations has also been consistent, courageous, and persuasiveand tied directly to her recognition that 40 years of growing income and wealth inequality wont 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, Washingtons 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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Excellent op-ed, IMO. It addresses so many of my own reasons for supporting Elizabeth Warren.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
BlueMTexpat
(15,374 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Bettie
(16,134 posts)I LOVE her focus on corruption.
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blm
(113,119 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
ms liberty
(8,614 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
sheshe2
(83,979 posts)I love this part you highlighted.
NOT ME, US!
Thank you Elizabeth Warren.
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BlueMTexpat
(15,374 posts)And that's why i love her!
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sheshe2
(83,979 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,123 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!!
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blm
(113,119 posts)take a tougher stance on financial industry than he did. Im 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 Warrens 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)"happy and persistent warrior" rings true!
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My Pet Orangutan
(9,340 posts)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)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
My Pet Orangutan
(9,340 posts)Obama meeting Bank CEO's March 37, 3009
This is like a patient whos on antibiotics. Maybe the patient starts feeling better after a couple of days, but you dont stop taking the medicine until youve finished the bottle. On keeping the lending books open with bailout funds.
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blm
(113,119 posts)will be upon us soon.
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My Pet Orangutan
(9,340 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
BlueMTexpat
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dchill
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Mickju
(1,807 posts)I think she would make an excellent President.
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BlueMTexpat
(15,374 posts)Thanks for the consideration.
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