01-16-2020, 04:01 PM
(01-15-2020, 07:34 AM)sbarrera Wrote:(01-14-2020, 04:07 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: https://www.npr.org/2020/01/14/795715253...ed-to-know
We're up to the seventh debate, and down to six candidates.
The leading Democratic presidential candidates return to the debate stage Tuesday at 9 p.m. ET — this time in Iowa, which hosts the first-in-the-nation caucuses in less than three weeks.
Just six of the remaining 12 Democratic candidates qualified for this debate, making it the smallest debate stage yet. And all six qualifying candidates are white, reflecting the diminishing racial diversity of the field.
Something Is Missing In Iowa As Democrats Once Again Debate: A Clear Favorite.
Tuesday's prime-time tussle comes as Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has notably stepped up his criticism of other top-tier candidates, especially former Vice President Joe Biden. The back-and-forth between the two septuagenarians over issues including Biden's Iraq War vote has illustrated the progressive vs. moderate divide within the Democratic Party.
But in the last few days, a rift has also emerged between the two leading progressives, with Sanders and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren breaking a de facto nonaggression pact to trade barbs.
If the party's big story is rifts among septuagenarians, mostly from the Silent generation, we are not looking at a dynamic new party that has a future on the forefront of change.
I was not too impressed with the field during the debate.
But I was never too impressed with this field. It depends on who steps up. The best candidates didn't.
But there is no other party available to us now that can have any future on the forefront of change. And I am sure change is coming. The people will have to make do with the leaders it has.
(Republicans are not the peoples' leaders)