Democratic Primaries
Related: About this forumNew Yorker: Moderate Democrats' Surprising Embrace Of Elizabeth Warren
https://www.newyorker.com/news/current/moderate-democrats-surprising-embrace-of-elizabeth-warren-at-the-democratic-debateThere was a time, only six or seven years ago, when one might have expected the group of mostly wealthy, centrist Democrats at the Aspen Ideas Festival to be a difficult crowd for Elizabeth Warren, who was greeted as a political figure by columns warning Democrats against populism. But a lifetime and a half in politics has passed since 2012, when Warren won her Massachusetts Senate seat. Bernie Sanders has pulled many of the Partys rising stars to the left, and it seems that a good number of the crowd that gathered at Aspens Hotel Jerome to watch the first Democratic primary debate, on Wednesday, have followed them at least part of the way. There was broad applause for Warrens first remarks of the evening, which amounted to a mission statement for her campaign.
Who is this economy really working for? she asked. Its doing great for a thinner and thinner slice at the top. Its doing great for giant drug companies. Its just not doing great for people who are trying to get a prescription filled. Its doing great for people who want to invest in private prisons, just not for the African-Americans and the Latinxs whose families are torn apart, whose lives are destroyed, and whose communities are ruined. It's doing great for giant oil companies that want to drill everywhere, just not for the rest of us who are watching climate change bear down upon us. When youve got a government, when youve got an economy that does great for those with money and isnt doing great for everyone else, that is corruption, pure and simple. We need to call it out. We need to attack it head on, and we need to make structural change. .........
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
appalachiablue
(41,102 posts)(Wash Post, EJ Dionne, 6/19/19). Former senator Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.) argued that Democrats need to pay far more attention to rural America if they ever want to take back the Senate. Sen. Christopher A. Coons (D-Del.) urged his party to be more open to people of faith. Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) spoke for new members of Congress from swing districts in insisting that the loudest voices are not representative of voters working two or three jobs.
And New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) had this advice: Dont keep reacting to [President] Trump. Show there are things we can run on and win on. Thus went the counsel of the Democratic pragmatists of Third Way, a leading middle-of-the-road think tank, at a meeting here this week that was, in part, a running critique of the baleful influence of Twitter on the political debate. Jim Kessler and Lanae Erickson, senior officials of the group, devoted separate presentations to showing that Democratic voters who use Twitter regularly are much more left-wing than the partys primary electorate as a whole. Democrats, in Third Ways view, could tweet themselves into oblivion...More-
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/even-moderate-democrats-want-to-tame-capitalism/2019/06/19/11c9d5c4-92d0-11e9-b58a-a6a9afaa0e3e_story.html?utm_term=.b5d428a9d74b
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
This is significant to the overall debate.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
FreeLookMode
(30 posts)Nonetheless, he added: We have to own some of the mistakes of the New Democrats of the Clinton era. Among them, he said, was underestimating the effect of trade liberalization on a significant number of blue-collar workers and the speed and ferocity with which technology would decimate certain sectors of the American workforce. A particularly negative effect of this was the concentration of opportunity in certain regions as large parts of the country were left behind.
We need to be working to tame capitalism at this moment, because it is not functioning well, he concluded. We need to do in this century what the progressives and New Dealers did in the last century. No wonder Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is getting far better reviews from Third Wayers these days than she did a few years ago.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
blm
(113,003 posts)And should matter to more of the center leaning members of our party.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
blm
(113,003 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
FreeLookMode
(30 posts)Dang.
You must be like one of the wise elders of the board hehe.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
blm
(113,003 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
melman
(7,681 posts)There are probably others.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
George II
(67,782 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
TomCADem
(17,380 posts)I don't see what is so surprising that even "moderates" support her.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden