Elizabeth Warren: "The American people ARE Progressive - and our day is coming." [View all]

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Don't let the media fool you. We Americans are VERY progressive.

“Our values are America’s values, and America’s values are progressive values.”

• 70% of Americans across this country support an increase of the federal minimum wage to at least $10.10 an hour. Republicans may vote to keep workers in poverty, but on minimum wage, the American people are Progressives.
  
  
• Progressives believe that students shouldn’t be crushed by debt and the federal government should not make a profit on student loans. And so do 73% of Americans.
  
  
• Progressives believe people should be able to care for sick family members without fear of losing their jobs, and so do 80% of Americans.
  
  
• Progressives believe that millionaires and billionaires should pay the same tax rates as their secretaries, and so do two-thirds of all Americans.
  
  
• Progressives believe that after a lifetime of work, people deserve to retire in dignity and that means a commitment to strengthening and expanding Social Security—and 79% of likely voters in last year’s election also supported increasing Social Security benefits.
  
  
• Progressives believe in trade, but not the kind written behind closed doors by corporate lawyers that leave American workers eating dirt. Nearly two-thirds of Americans favor some sort of trade restrictions, and more than half oppose Fast Tracking trade deals.
  
  
• Progressives believe that powerful corporations and billionaires have far, far too much influence over our politics and their stranglehold over our government rigs the game. Nearly three-quarters of America agrees.
  
  
• Progressives believe that Wall Street needs stronger rules and tougher legal enforcement – and that, five years after Dodd-Frank – it’s time to stop pretending and really END Too Big to Fail with rules like the Glass-Steagall Act. And 79% of Americans believe Wall Street should be held accountable with tougher rules. Beltway Republicans may be willing to let the biggest banks break our economy again, but on Wall Street reform, the American people are Progressives.

We have a presidential election coming up. I think anyone running for that job – anyone who wants the power to make every key economic appointment and nomination across the federal government – should say loud and clear that they agree:

We don’t run this country for Wall Street and mega corporations. We run it for people.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/elizabeth-to-speak-at-netroots-nation-rally_55a938f8e4b03f76c5ee2be2

A 9 minute video of excerpts from Elizabeth Warren's 30-minute speech at the Netroots Nation annual convention in Phoenix Arizona (July, 2015) where she made these points:

The full video (29 minutes):