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In reply to the discussion: Don't mistake the Warren phenomenon for a personality cult. [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)2016. But the reason I support her (and also like Bernie) is the policies she fights for. We need economic reform. We need to shut the revolving door between Wall Street and the government, between other regulated industries and the government.
In America, every once in a great while, we elect a reformer. Theodore Roosevelt reveled in violence and was extreme in his belief in American exceptionalism. With regard to those policies, I think he was a horrible extremist.
But he was also a dedicated reformer who hated the corruption, graft and sales of government jobs. He fought Tammany Hall, and made some inroads into strengthening our federal civil service system and decreasing to some extent the power of the criminals in government, especially in New York State who were buying and selling offices and all kinds of favors. He was just loud enough and showy enough to bring the issue of government corruption to the attention of the nation starting in New York State.
I do not think that Elizabeth Warren is a Teddy Roosevelt. Far from it.
But I do think that every once in a while in our history we hit a wall. The corruption just becomes so obvious, so unbearably unfair, that we elect a reformer. I think that Elizabeth Warren would reform some of the worst excesses.
It should have been impossible, considering the amount of money, the resources, and the personnel that we dedicate to overseeing our financial sector for Bernie Madoff to have operated as he did, so blatantly, so fraudulently without being seriously questioned about it and stopped. Even if direct pay-offs were not involved in the silence and failure to investigate his operation, a lot of really bad management of the government's oversight roll made it possible for him to cheat so many people for such a long time.
Our financial system needs reform. Elizabeth Warren is aware of the failings in our financial sector and has proposals to repair it.
I also like Bernie Sanders.
It's time for a reformer. There is too much corruption in our government. The entire Republican Party and the Third Wayers. Citizens United is one of the most corrupt, absurdly corrupt Supreme Court decisions in our history.