Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: If nominated, Bernie Sanders will hand the 2020 election to Donald Trump [View all]NNadir
(38,718 posts)Basically, they mostly disgust me as a class, but every class has its exceptions, even its brilliant shining exceptions, and among us baby boomers, Ms. Warren strikes me as that.
You know, I spent an afternoon with Freeman Dyson when he was in his late eighties. He was more brilliant than anyone I ever met, including younger people in the prime of life. On the other hand, I know people my age who can't tie their shoes.
Ms Warren is fresh. She makes a point of being able to change her mind. She's not repeating the same shit that she was repeating when she was 35. She was a Republican then, in fact.
As it happens I oppose her policies in an area that is most important to me, but that is unimportant because I know the facts and I know she looks at facts and let's them dictate her direction.
I've lived a long life. I change my mind about things all the time; I learn. Warren learns.
I don't see any of that in Sanders. What I see is an old crotchety white man repeating himself over and over and over and over and over.
We've had enough of that.
Ms. Warren is in the flower of her youth at 70. Sanders was a crotchety "get off my lawn" old man twenty years ago. There's a difference.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden