Cory Booker wants to run for president in 2020, huh? Well, he’s gonna have a tough time dealing with how he’s the embodiment of the main problem of our political system, but more on that later.

In order for him to get the support he’ll need to secure the nomination, he’ll have to appeal to the progressive base. Unfortunately, he’s off to a rocky start, especially with the sources of his funding, as shown below.

This is troubling to me. How is someone going to rally for universal healthcare when they take more than $350,000 from Insurance? How is someone going to fight for a two-state solution and make sure no more illegal settlements are made in Palestine if they take more than $425,000 from Pro-Israel sources? And how is someone going to fight for lower prescription drug prices if they take more than $385,000 from the pharmaceutical industry? The answer? He won't.

After Bernie Sanders introduced an amendment to allow cheaper drugs to be imported from Canada, often lowering the cost two or three fold, Cory Booker lead 12 other Democrats into opposing it, and voting against it, even though 13 Republicans supported the amendment. It would’ve passed with these Democrats’ votes.

His excuse was that there were safety concerns, that the drugs wouldn’t follow FDA standards, and that there wouldn’t be sufficient checks to make sure the drugs were safe. One, most of these drugs were already made in the US, and then exported into Canada; they would just be brought back again, meaning they would follow FDA standards. Two, for the drugs that were made in Canada, the regulations in Canada are stricter, and more demanding than the FDA regulations here, so his argument made absolutely no sense.

After immense backlash from progressives, this happened.

Since he realized this vote was going to kill his chances to run in 2020, he voted for it this time. His explanation, again, relates to the safety of the drugs, with the new proposal having newly added safety standards the old one didn’t. We already went through how that argument was bogus, so we don’t need to go through it again.

Point is, he is not the candidate we want, or need. He is the symbol of corporate corruption, the very thing that is wrong with our politics. The Democratic Party lost to a human corncob because the American people are sick and tired of the establishment, corporate politics it’s been running. And if you want more corncobs in power, Cory Booker’s your guy, he’ll lose to all of them. If you want a real progressive that fights for the working class, poor families, and minorities in power, Cory Booker is the polar opposite of what you need. Get someone like Tusli Gabbard, or Nina Turner to run, enough of the corporate, establishment, failing wing of the Democratic Party. It’s time for real change, and Cory Booker won’t bring it.