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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe tandem of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren is offering liberals a powerful voice
Left Field. Hillary Clinton may be the front-runner, but the tandem of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren is offering liberals a powerful voice.
By Jamelle Bouie - MAY 26 2015 7:02 PM
Looking at the Democratic primary as a movie, a film critic might say that Sen. Bernie Sanders is a little on-the-nose as an antagonist to Hillary Clinton. He is her reverse. Where Hillary is well-known (and to many women, an icon), he is obscure. Where she embodies the establishment, he is on its outskirts, a self-identified socialist from the liberal enclave of Burlington, Vermont. Where she gives six-figure speeches, he is among the poorest members of the Senate with a net worth of roughly $460,000. She plans to run a $2 billion campaign; he hopes to raise $50 million.
And where Clinton is in the middle of the mainstream, Sanders has been an iconoclast for decades. As a House member, he co-founded the Congressional Progressive Caucus, opposed both wars in Iraq, and voted against the Patriot Act. As a senator for Vermont since 2007, hes criticized the bank bailouts, voted against Tim Geithners nomination for Treasury Secretary, and gave a nearly nine-hour speech against a partial extension of the Bush tax cuts.
Now, as a candidate in the Democratic nomination race, hes an advocate for the left wing of the party. I am not running against Hillary Clinton, he said in a recent interview with the Washington Post. Instead, hes launching a crusadeagainst inequality, against Wall Street, and against the billionaire class that he claims dominates American politics. Billionaire families are now able to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to buy the candidates of their choice, he says on his campaign website. These people own most of the economy. Now they want to own our government as well.
~Snip~
Warrens argumentshared by progressive leaders like New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and articulated in new work from groups like the Roosevelt Instituteis that the rules of our economy favor the wealthiest Americans and the most powerful corporations. In that environment, growth isnt enough. To fix inequality, you need to rethink those rules and recalibrate them for broad distribution of economic prosperity. And in the meantime, you also need to stop any new rules that rig the game even further....
Read more:
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/05/bernie_sanders_and_elizabeth_warren_are_giving_liberals_a_voice_hillary.html
By Jamelle Bouie - MAY 26 2015 7:02 PM
Looking at the Democratic primary as a movie, a film critic might say that Sen. Bernie Sanders is a little on-the-nose as an antagonist to Hillary Clinton. He is her reverse. Where Hillary is well-known (and to many women, an icon), he is obscure. Where she embodies the establishment, he is on its outskirts, a self-identified socialist from the liberal enclave of Burlington, Vermont. Where she gives six-figure speeches, he is among the poorest members of the Senate with a net worth of roughly $460,000. She plans to run a $2 billion campaign; he hopes to raise $50 million.
And where Clinton is in the middle of the mainstream, Sanders has been an iconoclast for decades. As a House member, he co-founded the Congressional Progressive Caucus, opposed both wars in Iraq, and voted against the Patriot Act. As a senator for Vermont since 2007, hes criticized the bank bailouts, voted against Tim Geithners nomination for Treasury Secretary, and gave a nearly nine-hour speech against a partial extension of the Bush tax cuts.
Now, as a candidate in the Democratic nomination race, hes an advocate for the left wing of the party. I am not running against Hillary Clinton, he said in a recent interview with the Washington Post. Instead, hes launching a crusadeagainst inequality, against Wall Street, and against the billionaire class that he claims dominates American politics. Billionaire families are now able to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to buy the candidates of their choice, he says on his campaign website. These people own most of the economy. Now they want to own our government as well.
~Snip~
Warrens argumentshared by progressive leaders like New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and articulated in new work from groups like the Roosevelt Instituteis that the rules of our economy favor the wealthiest Americans and the most powerful corporations. In that environment, growth isnt enough. To fix inequality, you need to rethink those rules and recalibrate them for broad distribution of economic prosperity. And in the meantime, you also need to stop any new rules that rig the game even further....
Read more:
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/05/bernie_sanders_and_elizabeth_warren_are_giving_liberals_a_voice_hillary.html
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The tandem of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren is offering liberals a powerful voice (Original Post)
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mike_c
(36,281 posts)1. Sanders and Warren represent me....
HRC does not. That is all I need to know.