Say what you will about Warren, but just her proposal for ideas to consider is leading to actual legitimate discussion the likes of which...I'm trying to recall ever happening in my lifetime with regards to politics (hell her one plan to break up megacorps that she specifically mentioned Google and Amazon, even the people that were pretty opposed to it were willing to discuss her specific ideas and reasoning, like I said, legit discussion).
On top of that she's like the opposite of Bernie Sanders where she has actual plans out when she says this stuff so you can discuss specifics, whereas a lot of Bernie's stuff was just the general idea with little behind it other than the will, and so he ended up being like a good version of Turmp in that it made for feel good ideas but there was little actually backing them up. (Which he has changed and has been pushing people to figure out the plans, and Warren has reaped the benefits of a lot of the analysis that has come about due to ideas that Sanders pushed - to be fair though to her, he didn't originate a lot of if any of the ideas himself, so its been general sentiment but I think he's helped galvanize them a lot. But, importantly, they've been building the ideas into actual planned out policy.)
Which, those things has led to the right not being able to blanket shit on them (like they've tried doing and even now with AOC who is getting hammered for her vague proposals that make for easy attack by right wing idiots; I'm not trying to criticize her, as they're ideas that she's openly said they'd look at how to implement, with some of this stuff being new territory like how do we deal with climate change and not just try to diminish our emissions impact). Few right wingers even attempted to address Warrens proposals and fewer still seemed to find a way to boil it down to some talking point to slander her with (probably because its hard to go "fuck her, she just said pretty much the stuff I've been saying but she found legitimate means whereas I'm just spewing bile because I'm mad that Google made me stop posting racist shit on YouTube!" without looking like a complete moron such that even other complete morons would see how stupid you are).
And another surprising turn. Not only has it clearly thrown off their usual tactics with regards to liberal/progressive ideas, its thrown them off so much that they're not even going to their fallback (in this case it'd be saying something about Pocahontas or something?). Its like they're blind to her beyond Turmp chortling like a dipshit about her (which in a debate, she could just keep mentioning the many many many many many instances of corruption and other stuff, almost certainly sending Turmp into a rage and making a fool of himself, as he'll probably only be able to just keep doing his elementary school level Pocahontas insult). My best guess is that they feel like Turmp vanquished her or something and so don't see her as a threat. I'm not sure if she is, but her ideas and how she's supporting them will be for Republicans.
If she keeps it up, I guess we might see what a Democrat that has "actual plans" up against the soundbite FUD and xenophobia of Republicans. At minimum it should provide a blueprint for any and all Democrats to build off of and work together (as many of them has proposed similar ideas, just usually not with as much specifics; I think that will change big time with these primaries). My only real concern is that them getting into the nitty gritty details might actually turn off the majority of potential voters (as they definitely prefer the rah-rah, and probably frankly even value looks and other superficialities even though they claim they don't). Hopefully they don't get into a long drawn out primary and quickly unify after it and work together so that they can work on charming people (as a unit, I think that's what people want, that's what they voted for Obama, and hell even Turmp, for, they thought they would both bring in a sea change and we'd stop seeing these same old political assholes we've been seeing for 2-3, sometimes 4 decades already; I think the group of Democrats could be that, as there's definitely fresh faces but some that have been around - but not constantly in our faces or if they were often there not irritatingly so - like Warren and Sanders and some others).
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