I do not understand how Elizabeth Warren didn't get more interest 4 years ago. She was clearly the best candidate and one who has the kind of broad appeal Bernie Sanders does. I think I'm at a point where my belief is that the bankers who are probably gonna vote Republican anyway who fund campaigns very explicitly don't want someone like Sanders or Warren to be president

[–] jprice@kbin.run 23 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The Democratic establishment doesn’t want people who go after their donors. Mainly big banks, but also pharmaceutical and insurance companies which if you ask me all need to be reformed and heavily regulated and a lot of people need to go to prison for what they’ve done to the country over the past 24 years. But hey, who am I, just somebody who wants better for the country that doesn’t have to do with sucking rich cocks.

[–] sunzu@kbin.run 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Corpo's lapdogs are on both sides but some how GOP ends appealing to the masses.

Some fucking warped reality.

[–] PanArab@lemmy.ml 13 points 5 months ago

It is easy to understand. The people who the Republican party appeals to are unlikely to vote Democratic, the Democratic Party by trying to appeal to them it is losing its base while not winning any Republican voters. The people who are likely to vote Democratic are more idealistic and will hold the Democratic Party to a high standard. The promised "push to the left" never came, and so the people are looking at two right wing candidates, the Republicans already got their guy in Trump and anyone even slightly left of center has no one to represent them.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 0 points 5 months ago

One-fucking-hundred percent.

Warren was my choice over Bernie for strategic value even though I like Bernie more. If we didn't have explicitly Republican propaganda outlets I think conservatives would have been more comfortable with her too as she was once a Republican and understands business law.

Hell she literally wrote the book on my, and others, biggest issue "the two income trap" where society has defined economic success by "family income" instead of individual incomes. People like myself suffer because we're perpetually single so we only have one income. Family income says everything is rosy because it's now 2 incomes. :(