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In reply to the discussion: She's DEFINITELY, ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY not runn... um... uh... [View all]TheKentuckian
(25,023 posts)Demand motivates supply when there is plenty and there are plenty of politicians and wannabe politicians.
Offered supply need not dominate ones thinking.
Shit, I have fixation or even particular predilection for Warren. To be honest, I worry something is more being projected on her rather than self illumination. Frankly, I wonder if she is liberal at all and many people are perceiving her as such simply because the spectrum is entirely lost it and she just stayed right where she was a generation or so ago.
The thing is I'm not seeing much, if anything that wouldn't be perfectly acceptable in the Republican party 30 or 40 years ago, opposed openly by only the fringe and the fringe of the fringe in the conservative party.
Based on her positions so far, there is nothing "leftist" or anti - capitalist but rather common sense rules of the road and transparent transactions stuff BUT everyone else has lost their fucking minds to the point where there are Democrats saying these things make her too liberal to vote for (though they are very hard pressed to articulate why).
Not that some damn sense isn't a significant upgrade but the limitations of just some sense are not insignificant just as the limitations of just sane pop up in deeply troublesome ways every day. Rational beats delusional but can still carry you far from course and so a measure of realism needs to be in the mix with someone with so many positions to discuss other than in the wheel house, with such a thin track record, and who was pulling the lever for the dumpster fire coalition well into adulthood and why (integrity and success of the markets).
In these times if you are an unflinching capitalist then you are dangerous because you have a religion that dominates your public actions. You can be a capitalist but if you haven't flinched and considered and reconsidered yet then you are not thinking deeply enough and are having reflexive reaction to the stimulus and probably wilfully ignoring most of history in favor of a fake but privileged point of perception.