Saw a lot of takes like: “Pressley breaks from the Squad!”
Like… Bruh. They are friends who, while ideologically similar in many ways, do not represent a single entity. She isn’t “Breaking From The Squad”. She’s just her own person. Centrist media can fuck off.
I blame the 21st century concepts of “Drama” and “Shipping/Staning” that has turned politics into a circus shit show.
I prefer the term sensationalist media. Since they are biased towards division, drama or well anything that gets someone to read a otherwise boring endorsement story.
As time goes on, I find my opinion on her sours more and more. I have all of the usual objections to Bernie… But I feel like “I don’t agree with the person” is a pretty good reason not to support them for president.
None of this is surprising. She’s a capitalist “to [her] bones”.
Would note it would be hard to tax billionaires if there are not any billionaires to tax :-p
That said I’m REALLY amusing at how much the super rich is freaking out as Warren gets a toe hold and at the same time the Far Left is freaking out because she’s actually trying to get elected…
Like taxing the rich is super popular (or getting them to pay their far share and blah blah blah) but Eliminating the rich completely is not a winning message in the US
We don’t want to eliminate the rich. We want to eliminate the obscenely rich.
This. There is nothing wrong with being rich. It is when your wealth is so vast that it directly translates to large scale economic and political power. A rich doctor might be worth the low millions and have some clout in a local town but they can’t singlehandedly fund even a state level politician’s campaign. Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates types can use their money to dangle economic gain or loss in front of local and state goverments and get what they want, or pump millions to billions into media campaigns to get favorable politicians elected. That’s the difference.
Would point out I’m reacting to Warrens comments and the reaction to it. Not your personal opinion.
If we have real campaign finance reform, and overturn Citizen’s United, then even a zillionaire wouldn’t have direct influence on government. The problem is that when someone is so ridiculously wealthy that even without involving themselves in government, they can do things that move the course of society without any democracy involved whatsoever.
And that precisely is the amount of wealth that no single entity should hold. Regardless of any other policy or ideology, we believe in Democracy. Regardless of the details of the democracy and how the voting exactly works, there is the fundamental simple idea that the course of our society should be voted on and the majority should rule.
So if a rich person wants to build a mansion, sure, that’s just them doing shit on their land, no big deal. If a billionaire tries to start building, oh, I don’t know, a social network that is so large and powerful that is sways the course of human history around the world, there should be democratic control of something like that. No person or corporation or group should have more power than the government itself. Nothing too big should happen without the say of all the people. Too much money in the hands of one person means that one person can just do things that normally it would take an act of government to do, and that’s not ok.
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I feel like this may be apropos of nothing, but I have yet to see anyone bring up the elephant in the room that Warren wouldn’t face a fraction of the pushback she is if she was a man.
Like Jesus, where is the endless nitpicking over Bernie’s plans? Where is the ruthless haranguing over something stupid he said in the past? Maybe I’m exposing myself to too much Twitter, but I am miserably fed up with left’s deplorable lack of solidarity. I’m not asking anyone to support a candidate they disagree with, but ffs we need to show even nuetral support for people adjacent to the people we like and not attack everyone that doesn’t meet our personal brand of leftism.
/Morning rant
I have noticed this as well. Like yo, I am down with Bernie, he’s just my number two. Probably even a very close number two. He’s also got his own issues if I really wanted to nit-pick. So does everyone. Even evil Republicans have a few small good aspects. Everyone, even political candidates, are flawed humans like us.
It just seems like Warren in particular is under the most assault. The reason I think are pretty obvious. She is doing great and has a strong chance of winning, so she’s worth spending time and effort attacking. Obviously the right is going to attack her. She’s a woman and sexism is still a thing. She’s too far left, so the billionaire democrats and centrists have to attack her out of fear she will END them if elected. She’s not 100% all the way socialist, so socialists who demand supporting the absolute furthest left candidate attack her as well.
Yeah, there’s no denying she’s got issues, so does everyone. None of her issues are disqualifying. Oh no, she didn’t explicitly say that billionaires shouldn’t exist. But she did explicitly say big companies should be broken up, and billionaires are crying on TV out of fear she’ll win and ruin them, so seems good to me?
“We need ICE” uggggggh
We need customs and immigration administrative services but we don’t need ICE.
Hard to defend that one.