2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I wish Obama could win, but he can't - HRC has overwhelming support [View all]cascadiance
(19,537 posts)... and too "far left" as a way to keep their corporatist hold on our leadership. I think times are changing, and more are seeing what went down where people are now saying that candidates are too CORPORATE for them to be elected, if they are Democrats. Democrats around this country are frankly just plain tired of both losing elections, and losing their way of life due to the way corporatists have stolen them both from us now.
Whether it is Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, or someone else that will speak truth to power, they want someone else. And when you hear even many grass roots Republicans complaining about Obama and other corporate Democrats in his administration's ties to the banks and letting them get away with stuff, you know it is not just Democrats that are feeling a need for someone new to fight this control. The big challenge is to get our message out, and one on issues that reach people to let them know that someone like Warren supports THEM and not "corporate people".
I think the "too professorial" notion is more one that many of us drum up when we say we know that she knows what people are going through because of what she did as a professor before hand, because many people are being kept from the "educated class" by the corporate establishment these days in terms of student loan debt, costs of college education, and so many other similar barriers that make them feel that education is an upper class attribute rather one that every citizen has a right to and a responsibility to have to be a good participating member in a well run democratic government. That is more of a challenge for all of us to achieve rather than a "flaw" in Elizabeth Warren.
If Elizabeth Warren is "not electable", and anyone like her that would bring the kind of leadership we need, than this nation is truly doomed until we collapse to the point of perhaps a real revolution happening, French style with guillotines, etc. I really hope we don't have to go that route, and I think many others don't wish that either.