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In reply to the discussion: Let's let our senators know that we want them to get tough with the Republicans -- for a change! [View all]Cal33
(7,018 posts)one of them "authoritarian." Elizabeth did not endorse Hillary until the very end,
and Bernie did campaign for Hillary after she "won" the Primaries. Bernie has
been fighting the billionaire class from robbing the middle class ever since he
entered politics -- and even during his days as a student. His voting record has
been something like 99% pro liberal.
Elizabeth possibly grew up in a Republican-voting family. She married young,
raised 3 children, and was a working mother much of the time. She probably
had little time for politics until her children were grown. My guess is that whatever
ideas she had of politics were along the lines of those of her family -- until she had
time to become seriously involved in it. It took her some years before she broke
away from them. The majority of people do not break away from their family beliefs
without a great deal of internal struggle. Elizabeth is from Oklahoma, where most
of the people vote Republican. Being the person of integrity she is, she couldn't
help but break away from them. She is the type of person who follows her conscience.
She has become a Democrat - and a Liberal one - and who fights for the rights of all
Americans. She is also totally against the sociopathic billionaires, whose ways of
bribery and corruption for more money and power are bringing our country down the
drain, and to the level of a Third World Nation.
Am glad to know that you are a strong Liberal. I am one, too. But there will always
be some differences as long as there are two human beings on earth. I don't think of
Elizabeth as a Centrist. You do - and it's okay with me. I'd like to let you know that I
voted for Sanders in the Primaries, and for Clinton in the General.
I, too, think Elizabeth is the more competent of the two, but Bernie is more than
competent enough. Both are equally intellectually honest. He wouldn't have run, if
Elizabeth had been in the race.
Edit: If Bernie had won the presidency, and with Elizabeth in the senate -- what a team
they would have made! Within two terms much of Corporate Power would have been
cut down to size. Their 40-year reign of robbing the world's masses could have been
reduced to a reasonable size.