01-12-2021, 01:36 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-12-2021, 01:38 PM by Eric the Green.)
(01-12-2021, 12:06 PM)mamabug Wrote:(01-12-2021, 09:48 AM)beechnut79 Wrote: [quote pid='73313' dateline='1610433357']
In your last paragraph you mentioned a female who was walked all over. Is that Elizabeth Warren?
Tulsi Gabbard.
I disagree with her on almost everything, but she avoids the vitriol others more in the center of her party aim at their opponents and is smart enough to know both what issues would be the hardest for them to compromise on and how to speak in their language. I feel that there are many on the Center-Right who would be able to live with her, even as she pushes through single player healthcare, UBI, and starts rolling out the first steps of a GND. She also strikes me as one of the few politicians at the national level to have actual, independently derived at principles and is able to remove herself from the 'group think.' So, yes, I find her likeable.
She was also walked all over by her party - Clinton called her a Russian asset and the corporate media and big tech (whose CEOs are very much in the democratic establishment inner circle) routinely twisted the narrative around her or engaged in shadowing banning practices to reduce her reach. At least, that was my impression of how she was treated, along with Andrew Yang. I'm really not sure why, both are flamingly progressive in their politics. Maybe they are just out of the inner circle who, I think, was hoping for a Warren win. I'm reasonably certain that Biden was not their end game. Warren is much more imbedded in the east coast democratic machine, she just simply wasn't liked by the base.
Tulsi is more appealing both to some on the left and some more-conservative. Her record is a mixed bag. I don't think Tulsi nor Andrew had enough status in government to win in the Democratic Party. The Republican Party is the one that nominates candidates without enough qualifications, generally speaking. She was fairly charismatic. But I objected to her strongly, and Hillary was right about her. She approved of the Russians bombing Syrian cities, and said the Syrian civil war and revolution was an American war of regime change. So she put down honest citizens seeking their freedom who were shot down and run over and gassed by their tyrant, whom she visited. She seems to agree with conspiracy theory, especially about foreign policy. She is very anti-Muslim and a Hindu nationalist. She was popular as a supposed anti-war candidate, but she approved of drone strikes.