Schumer, Warren locked in battle over future of Democratic Party
Source: The Hill
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is locked in a contest for influence with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) over the future of the Senate Democratic caucus as the two battle to shape the outcome in this year’s primaries.
Warren, a progressive who has been outspoken in her criticism of the cryptocurrency industry, has made a big push this election cycle to help elect candidates who she says will fight harder to change the status quo in America, even if that means backing candidates who won’t support Schumer as leader.
Warren recently pointed to the victories of three progressive candidates backed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) in House primaries in Schumer’s home state as a sign that voters are hungry for big changes and bold progressive policies in Washington.
“It says more about the state of voters. Voters want change. They want people who have clear ideas about how to make their lives better and to know that they will fight for them,” she told The Hill.
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5948365-warren-schumer-senate-influence/
Warren has already endorsed three Democrats in Senate primaries who have refused to support Schumer serving as leader for another term. The article goes on to talk about an unnamed Senator who is concerned about "moderate" Dems who are cozying up to corporate interests, promoting wild west deregulation, and generally going to bat for cryptocurrency industry and other shady industries.
This will surely become an even more pronounced issue following the SCOTUS decision about the "free speech rights" of parties. It is not hard to imagine the directional shift of the Democratic Party if Warren were to become leader, a possibility she pointedly does not rule out in the article.
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Leadership is underestimating the anger of the American people.
Seventy-seven is just too old now.
...are those who will lose their power and influence once things change.
They are going to fight tooth and nail. They are going to do whatever it takes to retain their position in our society. I feel like they would be more than willing to let it all fall apart rather than admit their time is over.
We need to understand this. They are not going to fight because they are making things better, they are going to fight because they don't want to lose their place.
Even when 'losing their place' is what is sorely needed.
Yes, these are debates that are long overdue. They have to happen and we need to figure out a way to move forward without repeating the mistakes of the past. We need a more progressive posture. Pandering to the old ways and the old greed is what put us here. Not changing them would just set us up for another orange gibbon to jump in the second they wave some money around.
We can discuss it up and down (for the record I'm w/Indivisible, throw the crooks out); but at the end of the day, we pick our candidates by state and then we'd better circle the wagons to get them through the midterms.
I'm not only sending donations to Talarico here in TX, but I've also already sent $$ to Ossoff in Georgia, for e.g. We need to find the best people we can and support them! Maybe that's an oyster man in Maine, a seminary student in Texas, a dem socialist in Colorado. Let's just get'em all in office so we can throw out these fascists.
