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I wish Elizabeth Warren had run. She is a prime example of a sane down to earth person turning down the position everyone else lusts after.
by daveguy 10y ago
I wish Elizabeth Warren had run. She is a prime example of a sane down to earth person turning down the position everyone else lusts after.
- labster 10y agoShe's so sane and down to earth that she'd rather be the most powerful Senator for 20 years than President for 4 years. You should be thanking her for playing the long game.
- shawn-butler 10y agoThere is nothing preventing any former President for running for another elected office that is not in the line of succession. I think Andrew Johnson ran for the Senate while still POTUS if memory serves.
- vertex-four 10y agoBeing President doesn't tend to do wonders for public opinion, though - it's an incredibly public role and every decision is scrutinized to a degree higher than any other public office.
- newman314 10y agoI'm over her when she decided to endorse Hillary thereby implicitly endorsing Hillary's Wall Street connections. So much for defending against big banks. :(
- specialist 10y agoHuman affairs are a marathon, not a sprint. Pace yourself. Also, I've learned to embrace incrementalism and transactional politics (quid pro quo). Lastly, if you bring the heat, the targeted policy maker(s) will see the light. The color of their logo won't be a factor. Sanders' campaign, and massive following, absolutely moved Clinton to the left.
- newman314 10y agoIt moved her statements to the left (for now). I very much doubt that she's going to actually go through with things given her past history. Examples: TPP, gay marriage etc. One could try arguing that she has evolved but MANY see her as just flip-flopping to what seems politically expedient at that time. Hence the tremendous amount of distrust. Embrace incrementalism = let's make mediocre great again. Imagine that kind of mentality when it was announced that we were going to try to send someone to the Moon. "Let's shoot for the moon!" "Enh, let's just name an airport instead to build support"
- specialist 10y agoHow do you think gay marriage and marijuana were legalized (thus far)? Fits and starts. Fighting for every single inch. And then eventually victory. Think of any major, significant social progress. Emancipation, suffrage, welfare, worker safety, child labor, etc. etc. Each decades in the making. I encourage you to read The Waxman Report by former US Sen Henry Waxman to get a sense of how much effort and time it takes to forge policy, move the needle. Continue to disempower yourself thru cynicism, apathy, and inaction. Or follow the examples of Sanders, Warren and 1000s of others and learn to convert your outrage into action.
- ZenoArrow 10y agoIf you want a principled presidential candidate on the left of the political spectrum, you could vote for Jill Stein (or hope that Clinton gets indicted by the FBI before the democratic convention so that Sanders can step in, but the chances of that are slim to none). Jill Stein has similar policy positions to Bernie Sanders, if the Sanders supporters realise this en masse she may have decent chance.