Progressives (Liberals)

It's a mug's game.

No, it is identity politics saying that color and origin make someone qualified for the job.

The script instructs Sanders volunteers to tell voters leaning toward the Massachusetts senator that the “people who support her are highly-educated, more affluent people who are going to show up and vote Democratic no matter what” and that “she's bringing no new bases into the Democratic Party.”

“I like Elizabeth Warren. [optional]” the script begins. “In fact, she’s my second choice. But here’s my concern about her.” It then pivots to the criticisms of Warren.

The Sanders campaign did not challenge the authenticity of the script, but it declined to comment. The Warren campaign also declined to comment.

It is unclear whether the script is being used for phone calls or door knocking or both, or in which locations.

The document also instructs to tell voters who are favorable toward Pete Buttigieg that he lacks support among African Americans and young people and to tell voters sympathetic to former Vice President Joe Biden that “he doesn’t really have any volunteers” and that “no one is really excited about him.” All of the attacks relate to the electability of Sanders' top rivals.

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To now turn to old white men to compete with an old white man seems disingenuous to what a very large percentage of what the Democrat party stands for.

But it's not what I stand for. I don't vote for Democrats; I vote against Republicans. Choose a younger gay male with dark skin and someone will complain that older straight white women are being overlooked. Choose a woman with a Spanish surname and someone will want an Asian-American. Choose a trans-gender lesbian of mixed race and someone will object because their race was excluded. It's a mug's game.

Republicans criticizing Democrats for being insufficiently diverse in candidate offerings (in one electoral cycle) is like rapists attacking Dubya for touching the German chancellor's shoulders.

In today's political climate "upper crust" is even worse than the term elite. 

In today's political climate "upper crust" is even worse than the term elite. Warren is all about economic fairness to those under the one percent in her politics and she always has been since becoming known when Obama was president. It is a unfair and false way to phrase her base.

revelette3 wrote:

In today's political climate "upper crust" is even worse than the term elite. Warren is all about economic fairness to those under the one percent in her politics and she always has been since becoming known when Obama was president. It is a unfair and false way to phrase her base.

I assume the definition of "economic fairness" means government-controlled goods and services, increased taxes, and government expropriation of accumulated wealth. The sad history of the 20th century has proven that to be merely a formula for uniform poverty, declining quality of goods and services, the loss of individual freedom, and bureaucratic tyranny for all.