Liz Warren is not progressive folks

– doesn’t support m4a
– foreign policy hawke
– weak on wall st, won’t break up banks
– means tested programs (all of them)
– unwilling to decommodify anything
– pro-charter schools
– anti rent-control
– funded by 30+ billionaires

@aimeeterese

We won’t get fooled again

Elizabeth Warren is fond of saying

“…when you’ve got an economy that’s doing great for those with money and isn’t doing great for everyone else, that’s corruption, pure and simple.”

But this is absurd.
An economy “great for those with money” is simply a capitalist economy.

@aimeeterese

#Bernie2020

The illusion of finding that ‘one thing’ that will defeat Trump

Trump won the election after the pussy tape. Three years later the house Dems still think they will find “the one thing” with which to cancel him.
These people are insane.

@aimeeterese

the sexual politics of knuckle-biting pmc libs can’t overcome trump you say? well what about the politics-politics of knuckle-biting libs then

@mezhraiontsy

Agree but it’s not insanity it’s self interest they are rich don’t have anything at stake and like posing as the ‘resistance’

@samhaselby

#Bernie2020

I’d fall short

If you told me to create a fictional democratic candidate perfectly disposed to lose to Trump, one who repudiates everything the so called “ascendant left” says they care about, even I’d stop short of a former republican capitalist-to-her-bones who wore red face for three decades

@aimeeterese

#Bernie2020

Bernie gets it done – Examples.

3 weeks after Bernie introduced the Stop BEZOS Act, Amazon raised its wages to at least $15/hour. While our critics were busy attacking this bill, we kept our eye on the prize: building a grassroots campaign that wouldn’t relent until Amazon raised wages.

2 years after Bernie slammed Disney for paying workers starvation wages & less than 3 months after he rallied with 2K workers in Anaheim, over 60,000 Disney workers won a $15/hour minimum wage. Bernie was the only Senator who stood with the Disney workers

In ’15, when Bernie 1st introduced a bill to raise the minimum wage to $15/hour, the establishment called it a crazy, pie-in-the-sky, radical idea that would never, ever happen. Today, 7 states and over 40 cities have passed $15 an hour minimum wage laws.

One week after a Republican-led House approved Bernie’s amendment designed to stop IBM from slashing the pensions of older workers in 2004, 130,000 IBM workers regained over $300 million in pension benefits that had been illegally taken away from them.

In ’14, Bernie passed an amendment preventing cuts to Social Security & disabled vets. “With the adoption of Senator Sanders’ amendment, the Senate makes clear the need to protect retirees, veterans & others from an unwarranted cut to their benefits,” AARP

@GunnelsWarren

Money talks

Sen. Bernie Sanders’ campaign announces raising $25.3 million in Q3 — the largest quarter for any Democratic candidate this year.

@abc

The billionaire class should be very, very nervous. The working people of this country are ready for a political revolution.

@BernieSanders

Not complicated

The election stakes aren’t complicated.
One candidate has spent five decades advancing social, political and economic justice, and has the plans and the workers behind him.
The other two are ruling class flunkies who haven’t done shit for workers and have the media behind them.

@aimeeterese

#Bernie2020

Reminder: primaries are supposed to be aggressive and contentious

If you want a candidate that can beat Trump, they have to be able to take the heat in primary season, even improve as a result of it. This is what vetting looks like. It is supposed to be aggressive.

Everyone will see weaknesses of the candidates they’d like to see win exposed.

If the process doesn’t sting you some days, the process is either not working, or you’re still too disengaged.

Why do Warren supporters prefer her to Bernie ?

my experience from people I know is pretty consistent: they prefer Warren because she’s a woman, because they have a shallow understanding of Warren & Bernie’s respective policies and therefore think they are more the same than they are.

they are not convinced that capitalism is the problem, so reform sounds safer and less extreme, as more privileged folks they don’t have working class anger so can’t resonate with Bernie’s tone in comparison to Warren’s

they think US went off the rails relatively recently and we just gotta course correct not overhaul.

In short, they have a shallow political analysis and are unable to distinguish the nuance of the differences between B & W, and emotionally she feels more safe & assuring

This is my exp wking w a number of ppl who have had relatively good amount of class & race privilege in their lives, who are concerned about direction of country (& were b4 Trump) but didn’t have wool fully pulled from their eyes w Obama.

who desperately want to believe things aren’t as dire as they are. Compared to Clinton these folks go to Bernie easily but w Warren sounding similar they are confused & think their is no diff & they know that things abt what Bernie says make them somewhat uncomfortable.

Oh and to why they prefer Warren to any other candidate: because she’s the only other one talking at all convincingly about bringing about change. Which these folks do definitely understand is needed.

They are drawn to her “system is corrupted” frame vs Bernies “system is fixed” frame. One is just off the – otherwise correct – rails… the other sees that the whole thing is actually operating exactly as designed to.

@kaitlin_sb

#Bernie2020

Trump has a tell that reveals which Democratic candidate he fears the most.

You ever notice how Trump goes pretty easy on Sanders? If you’re a narcissistic idiot savant re media attention, you know that the way to beat someone popular is deprive them of oxygen, keep them out of the frame, reframe the contest to one you can easily win… (against Warren)

@aimeeterese

#Bernie2020