GAME OVER, Warrenista Liberals!

[davidthegnome]

176. Well Manny...

I've always thought that your satire tends to hit the nail on the head - and this post is no exception to the greatness I've expected of you. You don't disappoint.

On a serious note though... I do wonder what the end result would be of a Warren presidency. I remember being several years younger, jumping up and down with the excitement of the man who wrote "The Audacity of Hope". I remember long arguments with my parents (both Clinton supporters) and huge battles here at DU. I remember how much crap I went through at the convention in 2008. I remember how hard I worker - how hard so many of us worked, to get this President elected. His campaign was exciting, his promises were wonderful. His ideas, his intelligence, what appeared to be a sincere compassion for the less fortunate.

Now... as I pass the years in this economy, it seems to me that it really doesn't matter so much who the President is, as how the rest of the elites decide they want to work (or not work, as the case may be). We have a lazy, pathetic congress that on the occasions when they actually work, are more eager to obstruct anything useful. We have a Senate that has huge bickering matches about things that should be so very simple, so very easy and rational - like passing an extension on unemployment, raising the minimum wage a bit for our people who are becoming so damned poor.

I like Warren, I like a lot of her ideas, I admire her passion and her strength. I do not dislike Hillary, but I do believe she would be more of the same old politics and lack of real forward movement.

The things I believed in, fought for, worked for, prayed for... back in 2008, when we declared victoriously, "Yes we did!" turned out to be battles that weren't even really fought. Instead of a single payer health care system, a public option, some kind of way to insure poor people without breaking the bank... we have this immense new system to reform the insurance industry. A lot of people are saving some money, but a lot are not. A lot of people are insured now, but a lot are not. Whistle blowers are not protected, medical marijuana is still under assault, the Military Industrial Complex continues to grow in power and size on a level that is just unbelievable.

The rich get richer and the poor get screwed. When I was younger, I believed we could change things, I believe we could fix everything and turn our slowly decaying society and economy into a Utopia. Now, generally, I think to myself, "Eh, same shit, different year."

I'd love a Warren Presidency, but I think it's unlikely that she will run. Even if she does, I have very little faith in our voting system. The Media will put on a huge dog and pony show, and basically the rich and mighty will decide for us who wins.

The game, it gets old.