Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: We need bold, sweeping change, an FDR type change. Elizabeth or Bernie are the only ones capable. [View all]emmaverybo
(8,148 posts)program which stresses pre K through 12, the most crucial developmental stages for learning, is excellent. The public is much more attuned to his healthcare policy than to M4All and the suite of
plans, so terribly cost intensive, financially and politically, that Warren and Sanders propose, do nothing to fund, shore up, and protect the numerous entitlement and social programs at-risk throughout the nation. They also have little to zero chance of coming to fruition.
What does the world need? Surely not,at this perilous stage, a president without foreign policy and relations cred., deep knowledge, or experience. The possibility of a first nuclear war is an existential threat. The rise of anti-democratic, extreme right wing movements internationally is also a threat.
What America needs is stability, security, and doable policy. But America is not the planet. Domestic
economic policy is but one area in the full range of responsibilities a president will assume and her influence within it limited. Warren and Sanders could continue to lobby for change without assuming the presidency. Their efforts from the outside would likely effect as much change as either one could as a leader of the free world, commander-in-chief of a superpower among superpowers, a position for which by almost every measure Biden is far more prepared.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden