Candidate on Fire
Ms.
Warren would seek big tax increases on the wealthiest individuals and
corporations, creating a new tax on household assets that exceed $50
million as well as a new tax on corporate profits. From those two steps alone, she says
she would raise at least $3.8 trillion over a decade — money that would go
toward her plans on student debt cancellation, free college, child care, the
opioid crisis and green manufacturing.
By JM Hamilton (6-15-2019)
Rivers of ink were spilled this week on Candidate Warren, who appears to be surging in Iowa, and polling well –
no surprise – against Orange Julius.
Candidate Warren is the real deal, attracting large and growing crowds.
Moreover, her campaign is generating policy proposals – by the multitude
- that not only could save capitalism from itself, but, actually, if
implemented, pivot the free market economy to work for the American people (aka
the long forgotten 90%).
We don’t need to repeat what the
smart set have already written about Warren’s fountain of positive &
coherent, progressive, policy statements, especially when you can read about them:
here, here, and here. Or that Warren’s policy proposals were methodically,
& strategically, issued at campaign stops where they most resonate.
Let’s just say that initiating a
tax on wealth to retire catastrophic student debt and provide a free college
education for Americans is a great start.
Attacks on Big Tech utilities win immediate kudos & accolades. Her
adoption of aspects of the Green New Deal, and the expected creation of
hundreds of thousands of jobs, should be perfectly timed, after the Trump -
trickle down - economy hits the skids and slides off into the ditch.
The current front runner, Biden, offers
nothing, but failed neolib/neocon policies, and that great Obama retread:
HOPE. Biden still believes the fairy
tale - if he’s elected - the GOP and the Dems will reunite, be bros &
sisters again, cherubim will descend from the heavens, despite his eight-year
tenure w/in the Obama administration (best characterized by near Civil War
between the Dems & GOP).
Biden, along w/ the Dem
establishment, fails to realize that it is their very centrism, and sucking up
to US multinationals, that got them expelled from: state house after state
house; governors’ mansions; and the Congress and the White House. Sadly, Biden is so far behind the times that
even in the one area where establishment Dems have kept up w/ the public –
social policy – the candidate has already stumbled badly (on women’s
reproductive rights). And so, perhaps his
slow & inexorable descent begins, from front runner to footnote in history.
As for the other Dems w/ name
recognition? Harris, Beto, Booker,
Gillibrand… they all talk a great game, and they have some good & novel
ideas, many of which I support. Except, they all bear the mark. Harris has a problem w/ the mass
incarceration state, during her time as a prosecutor. Beto is in the pocket of Big Oil, as all
Texas politicians are. Big Biz has the
goods on Booker, and Gillibrand – possibly, the most progressive of this group – has
too many Wall Street ties. (Mr. Yang
definitely has my attention w/ a UBI, but not sure he will gain the attention or
traction, in an extraordinarily crowded field.)
And that’s exactly where Warren has them beat. Warren brings three
critical things to the table, that could allow her to be our first woman POTUS.
The Senator has
credibility in spades: She was onto the Wall Street banking scam, a long time before most Americans had their legs kicked out from under them
by the 2008 crash. Warren, an Okie, came
from nothing, and during an era when social mobility (aka The American Dream), for
the fearless and tough, was still a real possibility. From humble beginnings,
Warren became a lawyer, taught at Harvard, crashed the Obama White House,
kicked off the CFPB, got kicked out of the Obama White House (because she didn’t play nice w/ Wall Street banks), and became US Senator Warren.
Doubt her ability, smarts, and
stamina at your peril.
Nobody owns
Elizabeth Warren:
When
Warren dined w/ Larry – Benedict - Summers, he gave our hero a Faustian choice:
she could play ball w/ the connected, the dealmakers, & insiders, or she
could be an outsider, looking in from the outside. Warren passed on the Devil’s proposal and has never looked back. Summers' name is now synonymous
w/ mud… he will forever be linked to the Clinton White House's cataclysmic financial deregulation. Summers will always be associated with the very events & policies that brought America to her knees, during
the 2008 Wall Street banking crisis. And
outsider Warren? Today, she is a major
candidate/contender for the highest office in the land; and she’s a US Senator. And nobody owns Warren. Perhaps Senator Sanders is the only other
leading candidate about whom that could be said. This means, upon entering the
White House, POTUS Warren won’t pivot away from the positions that placed her
into the top job, like every other scam artist that comes along.
Timing is
everything: Warren is precisely at the right
place at the right time in history, and she’s the correct gender, ethical, and deeply
intelligent. Say what we will about
POTUS Trump… the blowback from his presidency, his actions & lies, drove exceptional voter turnout in 2018, and elected a record number of women to Congress. Women voters played a key role in the ascent
of women politicians (Would POTUS HRC have had the same impact during the 2018
midterms? Doubtful). Warren is uniquely positioned, at the right
moment and time, to clinch the nomination and become POTUS. Allow me to put it this way, if the Senator from
Massachusetts obtains the brass ring, the Dem nomination, Trump is toast. Gone w/ the wind. An egomaniac, pathological liar, born w/ a silver spoon in his mouth, and w/ the US economy, possibly, trending down… against an honest woman, who rose from
nothing to become prospective leader of the free world, based upon sheer guts and determination.
The match up, if it does
occur, doesn't even require thought, as to its outcome.
In fact (barring the public
buying into Captain Status Quo's – Joe Biden's - rancid & unimaginative message), the only other real challenger to
Warren’s ascension, ultimately, is the only other honest candidate running
today. That would be Senator Sanders (who, truth be told, JMH is exceptionally fond of as well).
All this is still highly
speculative, but barring the unforeseen, known unknowns, and unknown unknowns…
the race for the White House has already been narrowed down to two
candidates: Sanders and Warren. The complete opposite of what the
billionaire/multinational owned MSM will tell you: that a Sanders/Warren
nomination equals Trump being reelected.
Don’t believe the fear and the
lies.
As the Warren campaign builds up
steam… in the distance, destiny calls.
Is she calling for Warren or Sanders?
Copyright JM
Hamilton Publishing 2019
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