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Peace Patriot

(24,010 posts)
7. Clinton is going to ruin Warren's chance at POTUS anyway...
Thu Apr 21, 2016, 11:49 PM
Apr 2016

...whether Warren is on the ticket or not.

The likeliest way Clinton will ruin Warren's chances is by losing in the GE this year. If that happens--and I think it will (Clinton's negatives are just too high)--it will likely be decades before another woman gets nominated and Warren will be too old. Warren is a great senator but she would have to have FDR-like or JFK-like charisma to overcome our first woman nominee LOSING the election. And I don't think she has that kind of charisma. She's super-smart. She right on, on the issues. But she will have an albatross around her neck--Clinton's loss--and will have to have some extra oomph to overcome that.

If Clinton wins the GE, her administration is going to be paralyzed by one scandal after another--she is exceedingly corrupt; and she will be horrible on the issues that most people care about--war, increasing poverty, Mother Earth going down for the count, you name it. She's even weak on women's issues (has stated she's willing to compromise on abortion). Her very high negatives mean she won't have much citizen support enthusiastically rallying to her, and her policies will earn her even less. She will be a disaster as president, and Warren will suffer, as VP or not.I will predict right now that if Clinton becomes president, she won't get a second term. Who will replace her as a nominee or a president, I have no idea. We may not have a stable planet by the point, so maybe it won't matter much. The most likely thing to happen politically is a fascist dictator. The social chaos that climate change will bring may well result in that.

We have a choice now to have an amazingly inspiring president, Bernie Sanders, who is committed heart and soul to reversing climate change, and will, at the least, act quickly to slow it down and to mitigate its impacts on people. Our rigged system--from the filthy campaign contribution system to the 'TRADE SECRET' voting machines--will not likely permit him to be elected president. But we can still try. That's all we can do is try and try and never give up on the revolution that must occur to save our country, our democracy and our planet.

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