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One year from the 2020 US presidential election, things start to become clearer day by day. In the US political scene, we can now recognize the authentic progressives from the fakes, and certainly, from the establishment neoliberal centrists.
One year from the 2020 US presidential election, things start to become clearer day by day. In the US political scene, we can now recognize the authentic progressives from the fakes, and certainly, from the establishment neoliberal centrists.
In the presidential-candidates level we can now identify only Bernie Sanders and Tulsi Gabbard as the ones who are willing to fight the establishment and try to implement progressive, anti-imperialist policies. After her latest position, concerning the military coup in Bolivia against the democratically elected Evo Morales, Elizabeth Warren could be considered a pseudo-progressive, equal to a female Barack Obama. Therefore, progressives definitely can't trust her.
Warren tweeted:
The Bolivian people deserve free and fair elections, as soon as possible. Bolivia's interim leadership must limit itself to preparing for an early, legitimate election. Bolivia's security forces must protect demonstrators, not commit violence against them. https://t.co/oDiiGmzEzq— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) November 18, 2019
As Alan MacLeod rightly mentioned: "She stated that the Bolivian people 'deserve free and fair elections, as soon as possible,' implying that the October 20 vote, won convincingly by President Evo Morales, was not clean, thus taking essentially the same position as the Trump administration, who made no secret of their relief that Morales was ousted."
This is exactly what we should expect from a 'moderate Republican' like Barack Obama. Not to mention Warren's horrible, neocon position on Venezuela issue.
On the contrary, both Sanders and Gabbard (although with relative delay) clearly recognized the military coup in Bolivia:
I am very concerned about what appears to be a coup in Bolivia, where the military, after weeks of political unrest, intervened to remove President Evo Morales. The U.S. must call for an end to violence and support Bolivia’s democratic institutions.— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) November 11, 2019
What happened in Bolivia is a coup. Period. The United States and other countries should not be interfering in the Bolivian people's pursuit of self-determination and right to choose their own government.— Tulsi Gabbard (@TulsiGabbard) November 22, 2019
The only thing that Bernie has to do now concerning foreign policy, is to fix his completely wrong position on Venezuela and separate himself from the Warren/neocon position.
It becomes more and more evident that Warren is establishment's last resort in front of a saturated candidate tank, full of ideologically obsolete and unable-to-inspire neoliberal centrists, like Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. As Sanders' Leftist manifesto becomes increasingly popular, especially among young Americans, the establishment understands that Warren is the most suitable to trick the voters one more time.
Therefore, we can now safely assume that Warren is the female version of establishment's Obama-style trick to steal the progressive vote in 2020.
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