If HRC is nominated WITHOUT a primary challenge:

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30. I think it is important that all of them run, even if I support Warren at this point...

I think the more candidates that are in the primaries, and the more voices we hear in debates, etc. the more viewpoints Americans will hear that hopefully will be less filtered by the corporate media to spin their way, and the more we can feel that an honest discussion of what ideas will deal with the issues of today will work best for all of us. Without that array of candidates, that discussion won't happen, and Americans won't have as a clear idea as to why they are voting for who they ultimately vote for. Americans have long been too deprived of real education and topical and useful information services that aren't propaganda.

So, even if both Warren and Sanders both run, I think it would be a problem if Hillary or some other one of the Third Way doesn't run, so we can hear from them personally why they feel their stances on what Democrats should stand for as a party is better than what Warren or Bernie propose. If we can't hear that discussion, it will be hard for people to connect the dots of who is best to lead on many of these important issues. They need to hear the good and also the not so good being discussed and measured publicly in front of them to help them sort that out and feel stronger themselves about who they want leading them.

The big problem for those of us who want to start these movements, is how we work around the corporate media message/propaganda machine to make this kind of discussion possible, and have potential leaders feel comfortable participating in them. That is where DU can help us a lot, by exploring newer ways of using the internet and other venues to achieve this.