Yes, of course, Warren is a snake. She should be shunned by anyone left of radlib for lying about Bernie and doing everything she could to tank his campaign...

BUT... she also wasn't relevant in terms of votes and she wasn't the reason Bernie lost. Or at least, she was way down there at like #9 on the list. It feels like a lot of Bernie supporters kinda want it both ways. They want to put a lot of the blame on Warren for Bernie losing but also want to mock her for only getting like 17 votes. She got third in her home state. But it's one or the other. Either she's irrelevant and no one voted for her, or she killed Bernie's campaign.

I get the argument that she should have endorsed Bernie when it was clear she wasn't going to win and Bernie at least had a shot (and he could have used it after Obama put his finger on the scale). Of course she should have, if she had any real leftist principles - but she doesn't, because she is a snake. And I dunno, I don't know if you can expect people to just drop out. Every single politician has a massive ego (even Bernie) and they play to win the game. If we ever get to a place where AOC and Rashida both want to run for president, I don't expect them to sit down together and politely discuss who should run. It's a competition and these are competitive people.

  • congressbaseballfan [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    I’ll take the bait. Warren could have won. Hindsight makes it easy to say she was irrelevant, but she could have won. She and her campaign were historically bad. Exceptionally poorly thought out. Literally did everything wrong. Just take a moment and consider how popular she was in 2015, even in 2018, and what happened next.

    Remember her video about her heritage? Remember the DNA test? Remember the bourgeoisie marketing bullshit that appealed to no one with out a masters degree or six figure income? Remember putting a doomed to fail Medicare for all plan and then walking it back to passing it after RE-ELECTION IN 2024? Remember surrogates like Roxanne gay and the lady who went on twitter rants about Asians? Remember “he said a woman couldn’t be president?”

    All of that, and much much more, happened before a single vote was cast. She was clearly leading in the polls in summer 2019 DESPITE THE DNA TEST VIDEO!

    Truly remarkable. Then after it was all over, she went on SNL.