'Future Hope' Column
By Ted Glick
The best line I’ve seen since the story broke a couple days ago about
the Elizabeth Warren/Bernie Sanders spat was this Twitter post by
Sunrise Movement leader Varshini Prakash: “mom and dad are fighting and
all I wanna do is go to my room and put my headphones on.”
That’s how I’ve been feeling, as someone who’s always supported
Bernie but who has appreciated much of what Warren has been saying and
who clearly is generally on the same page as Bernie on most major
issues.
I’ve written in the past about how powerful it would be if there was
either a Warren/Sanders or a Sanders/Warren ticket, if both of them end
up as the top two candidates going into the Democratic Convention. The
one with fewer delegates, I’ve said, should then get behind the winner
and they would both then run as a team.
Differences and divisions in politics, among progressives, among
people in general, are nothing new, but this sure feels bad. There ain’t
nothing Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg and mainstream-to-corporate
Democrats want more than to break the connection between the two strong
progressives.
I do not believe that Bernie Sanders said to Elizabeth Warren in a
two-person meeting no one else was in that “a woman couldn’t win the
White House.” As so many have said, this completely doesn’t compute with
what Bernie Sanders has been about for almost 50 years.
Source: tedglick.com
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