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Scuba

(53,475 posts)
Mon Dec 15, 2014, 10:12 AM Dec 2014

The Progressive: Young Women Love Elizabeth Warren

http://www.progressive.org/news/2014/12/187937/young-women-love-elizabeth-warren



It was enormously gratifying to watch Senator Elizabeth Warren come out swinging against those sneaky provisions in the $1.1 trillion federal spending bill that would roll back regulation on big banks and allow the wealthy to donate ten times more money to political parties. Warren is modeling the kind of progressive politics she argued for forcefully in an op-ed for The Washington Post just after Election Day, when she pointed out that people “see a government that bows and scrapes for big corporations, big banks, big oil companies and big political donors—and they know this government does not work for them.”

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Voters are listening, too. In “Not Ready for Hillary,” an article in the March 2014 issue of The Progressive, Abby Scher interviewed young feminists all over the United States who are reluctant to climb aboard the Hillary bandwagon. Their hero: Elizabeth Warren.

Warren’s leadership on student debt relief is a big reason young people are attracted to her: she speaks to one of the very most important issues on their minds. Likewise, her strong stance against inequality and the rigged system that favors big banks and big corporations over the needs of students, workers, and families hoping to build a better life, resonates with the Occupy generation. No wonder young women like Warren so much. And no wonder the campaign to get her to run for President just got a new burst of life.

“She’s amazing!” Adriana Cortes, a twenty-five-year-old organizer with Feminist Campus in California told The Progressive. “She’s doing a really good job going after bankers and folks who are really responsible for the economic situation we’re in. I wish there were more politicians with that kind of integrity.”
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The Progressive: Young Women Love Elizabeth Warren (Original Post) Scuba Dec 2014 OP
I posted this last Spring... wyldwolf Dec 2014 #1
Excellent, thanks. Scuba Dec 2014 #2
Yup, I would love to see her run. Lunacee_2013 Dec 2014 #3
Good points. Like the avatar cutie. appalachiablue Dec 2014 #4
Thank you! Lunacee_2013 Dec 2014 #5
The old rich white guys have ALREADY HAD their say. calimary Dec 2014 #8
No disagreement here. Lunacee_2013 Dec 2014 #9
Our job: mobilize youth and the disenfranchised. NYC_SKP Dec 2014 #6
+1 Scuba Dec 2014 #7

Lunacee_2013

(529 posts)
3. Yup, I would love to see her run.
Mon Dec 15, 2014, 10:51 AM
Dec 2014

She's not going to do it in 2016, but I would like to see her do it at a later date. Her or Wendy Davis, at least they wouldn't try to take away my right to control my own body. I'm sick and tired of seeing old, rich, white men voting against my right to control what happens inside my own body. I know Warren is more interested in fighting Wall Street, which is great, but as a woman, I would feel more comfortable with another liberal woman overseeing that part of the law as well.

We really do need more women (and PoC and gay ppl) in positions of power. It is time. Everyone should have their place at the table.

Lunacee_2013

(529 posts)
5. Thank you!
Mon Dec 15, 2014, 11:21 AM
Dec 2014

I just think we need more ppl fron different walks of life to be in positions of power. Not saying that old, rich, white guys can't have their say too, just that when it comes to my body, or anyone else's body, they need to mind their own bussiness. I really doubt they would want women to make those kinds of decisions for them.

calimary

(80,699 posts)
8. The old rich white guys have ALREADY HAD their say.
Mon Dec 15, 2014, 12:14 PM
Dec 2014

ENOUGH - to them! I don't think they have a say.

As I usually frame it - they can certainly weigh in ANY time and ALL the time, just as soon as one of them gets knocked up and has to deal PERSONALLY with pregnancy. THEN, and ONLY then, they can tell me all about it. Until and unless THEY can get pregnant, and know what it's like, and how arduous and, indeed, even life-threatening it can be (as not one but BOTH of my own pregnancies indeed were exactly that, btw) they should STFU. And they can get their damn grubby butt-inski paws off my body and out of my doctor's office.

Lunacee_2013

(529 posts)
9. No disagreement here.
Mon Dec 15, 2014, 10:58 PM
Dec 2014

Those old, rich, white guys can control their own bodies, but no one else's. I'm just saying that when it comes to making your voice heard and having a place in government, everyone should get a chance. The only thing I can think of that shouldn't be left up to voters are civil/human rights, which includes the right to control what happens to one's own body.

 

NYC_SKP

(68,644 posts)
6. Our job: mobilize youth and the disenfranchised.
Mon Dec 15, 2014, 11:53 AM
Dec 2014

The disenfranchised to include men and women from all walks of lives, all ages, all religions, all sexual orientations, in every community in the US.

That would include, oh, about 90 or 99% of Americans.

Go Warren!

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