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In reply to the discussion: Warren on Obama Admin: “They protected Wall Street. Not families who were losing their homes, jobs" [View all]cascadiance
(19,537 posts)I'm not disagreeing with people "believing" that Hillary will run. She hasn't announced yet, but that doesn't mean she won't, and she likely will. If she is "sure" she is running, then why hasn't she announced just yet? I think both Hillary and Warren are going through many thoughts on whether or not they should run, and honestly, there are probably more barriers for Warren to overcome than Hillary. But for some of us to keep shooting down Warren as "not running" any time someone tries to raise the flag for her doing so that a grass roots democracy really ASKS us to do of people we want to lead us, and they dismiss any critique of their own "candidate" who has not announced, because no one should question them as THE choice for the Democratic Party, then I have a problem with that, and I'll keep questioning their logic of "inevitability".
What I WAS saying in the last post you responded to here, is that what I DO believe is that the corporate controlled PTB DO want the polls, rumors, etc. to keep building up Hillary so that we can only have a choice between two corporate friendly candidates and not one that would support the people's interests over corporate interests the way someone like Warren or Bernie Sanders might. THAT is why I think it is harder for someone like Warren, if she is serious about a run, to give any hint she's doing so now. She wouldn't be helping herself and might be hurting herself that much more. Clinton doesn't face that kind of media/publicity threat that Warren does.
That is why I take all of these poll results now with a grain of salt, as I don't think that those that are serious about running have played their cards just yet. The only cards being played are those of the corporate media and lobbyists that want us to believe in the "inevitable choice" between two major party candidates that they can control in 2016.
And I support a candidate because they support my values, not just because they are on a certain "team" (party). If the Republicans were somehow able to nominate a candidate like Eisenhower in 2016, I might have some serious thoughts on who to vote for if Hillary were nominated. Chances of that happening are slim though, so I probably pragmatically will vote for the Democrat, even if I might have to hold my nose doing so, if both of them won't prosecute Wall Street criminals the way even Reagan did during the Savings and Loans crisis.