Warren 2020
Related: About this forumReading through the Working Families Party twitter feed.
The Working Families Party made a bold call endorsing Warren early in the contest. They have also opposed Bloomberg in NYC elections.
So I decided to read through their twitter feed starting with the days before the debate, and enjoy the aftermath; wishing, I thought, I could have been at a WFP watch party.
I was expecting a lot of joy. Instead I was humbled by the tweets of those on the receiving end of stop-and-frisk, sexual harassment, and a contemptuous city hall. One post I can't forget - a woman who said she was triggered by seeing Bloomberg again on TV.
In a primary contest, I had got caught up in the game, forgetting the human cost, the people Elizabeth is fighting for. People taking home the minimum wage on the edge of disaster, those humiliated by their day in the bankruptcy court, the families thrown out of their homes by predatory lending, sick parents struggling to put on a brave face for their children, the AA mothers who lose lives in pregnancy, minority neighborhoods suffering by toxic dumps and poisonous smoke stacks, the women silenced throughout the trauma of sexual harassment, the list goes on and on.
And when I see Elizabeth talking about these things on stage, what I notice is the honesty, the empathy, the compassion. It's easy to get caught up in the sizzle of a bank exec or a billionaire being decapitated by the professor, more difficult to stay in touch with what the fight is about. Elizabeth cares about ordinary people more than she abhors the privileged who oppress them.
Big Structural Change is about human values, a better world, the hopes and dreams of our children. Elizabeth is an extraordinary woman running for president 'because that's what girls do. I want to live in Elizabeth Warren's America.
-Denis
sheshe2
(87,272 posts)Doubt America is there yet. Doubt they will ever be in my lifetime. Saddens me that the best of the best is never good enough when there is a man standing by.
denem
(11,045 posts)Unless a male candidate was outstanding (none are), I was (and am) supporting the best woman for the job.
sheshe2
(87,272 posts)Will be voting for her in just over a week.
Stopped by the town hall the other day. Filled out a form for an absentee ballot for mom. She will be 94 in July. She is brighter and smarter than the dim bulbs that vote R. She is voting Warren as well.
Hugs.
denem
(11,045 posts)A woman president is the way to turn the page on trump's misogyny, his plastic family, the appalling message he sends to America's girls, that success is looking like a model until you reach your use by date. Trashing the talents of half the population, cripples our future. It is not in my self interest.
turbinetree
(25,246 posts)and she has my vote............................