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At the end of the day, Liz Warren is a left leaning technocrat who actually believes some of the library liberal bullshit most fake progressive, center-left Democrats say but don't mean. A hypothetical (and by no means guaranteed) Liz Warren victory on election night would represent a top-down, social democratic altering of the deal between elite capital and the poor, with some percentage of the labor class benefiting somewhat in the overlap.
By contrast a Bernie Sanders presidency would represent the nascent beginnings of a bottom-up, labor class and democratic socialist revolution (juxtaposition on purpose) that would actively seek to restore grassroots, labor class power and thus fundamentally alter the *balance of power* between the labor class and our "betters" - a class of people to which Liz Warren belongs herself; as opposed to Sanders who grew up labor class rather than even just "middle class."
Look, just between you and me, I sincerely want to like the modern iteration of Liz Warren. If you could transport this new (non-Republican) Liz back in time she would have been the perfect candidate to run in 1992 instead of Third Way minion Bill Clinton and his slavishly pro-elite capital agenda. I do sincerely wish my desire to like her and my wish that she'd come along before we go to this point of no return meant anything at all my friends, but it just doesn't.
For the labor class a Liz Warren presidency isn't "disappointing" or a "missed opportunity" it's poison and death. Liz Warren doesn't have a grass roots revolution, she doesn't understand how to build worker's power and her top down solutions are not going to open up options for the labor class beyond her Presidency; if that even happens at all because I'm certainly *not* sure she's capable of beating Donald Trump.
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