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Autumn

(46,333 posts)
Sat Nov 15, 2014, 09:49 AM Nov 2014

It’s Elizabeth Warren’s party now! How to remake it in the liberal heroine’s image

f they're smart, liberals could use Warren's new power to make the changes to the party that are so badly needed

Despite being so notoriously difficult to get right, predictions are part of the pundit’s stock-in-trade. So once you’ve got some grains of salt ready to toss into the mix, please indulge me for a moment as I make one of my own.

Here it goes: Twenty years from now, assuming climate change has not yet ended the world as we know it, most American liberals won’t think of this fall as the time when Republicans finally retook control of the U.S. Senate. And they won’t think of it as the brief pause that separated the era of Barack Obama from that of Hillary Clinton. Instead, when the liberals of our near future look back on the current moment, they’ll remember it as the hour when the Democratic Party began to move decisively to the left, thanks in no small part to the continued ascendance of Sen. Elizabeth Warren.


http://www.salon.com/2014/11/15/its_elizabeth_warrens_party_now_how_to_remake_it_in_the_liberal_heroines_image/

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It’s Elizabeth Warren’s party now! How to remake it in the liberal heroine’s image (Original Post) Autumn Nov 2014 OP
I just hope that Hillary is listening & watching Elizabeth. jillan Nov 2014 #1
I like Elizabeth - a lot - but I'm not sure she's very liberal outside of the bankster issues. Scuba Nov 2014 #2
I disagree with her on that and marijuana legalization. Everything else she is Autumn Nov 2014 #3

jillan

(39,451 posts)
1. I just hope that Hillary is listening & watching Elizabeth.
Sat Nov 15, 2014, 01:03 PM
Nov 2014

Ya know - I don't really think of Elizabeth as being left or right.

I think of Elizabeth as a fighter for all people, for fairness for all. Especially as today's society is controlled by the Corporations.

That really is not political. Or should I say - it shouldn't be. But in today's world it is Corporations vs People and one party represents the corporations and the other represents the people.

 

Scuba

(53,475 posts)
2. I like Elizabeth - a lot - but I'm not sure she's very liberal outside of the bankster issues.
Sat Nov 15, 2014, 01:09 PM
Nov 2014

Her stance on Israel/Palestine is hard line right wing.

I'm not aware of her positions on other issues key to liberals. Can you help?

Autumn

(46,333 posts)
3. I disagree with her on that and marijuana legalization. Everything else she is
Sat Nov 15, 2014, 01:30 PM
Nov 2014

in my ball park and I think her view will evolve much like Obamas did on some issues . Here,


http://www.ontheissues.org/senate/Elizabeth_Warren.htm

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