Amy Chozick's New York Times article should upset every single liberal and progressive. All politicians pander. However for the Democrat, who the media and the Democratic Party have all but coronated as the nominee, to claim she is listening and learning is pathetic. Most people in America can qualify and quantify most of our problems.

This snippet from the article is probative:



Mrs. Clinton lacks some of the extraordinary gifts for connection and empathy that her husband possesses, and the round-table events that have characterized her early campaign can feel stage-managed. But even these settings are producing revealing moments, as Mrs. Clinton finds herself far from the world of international diplomacy and scrambling to re-educate herself about the nation she hopes to lead.

Why should the presidential front-runner need to re-educate herself on the nation she hopes to lead? It leaves many doors open for the corporatist indoctrinating traditional mainstream media the space to concentrate on silly, sometimes sexist issues as the gravitas of policy articulation is absent.

Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders have been articulating what ails the middle-class and the poor for years and decades respectively. Bernie Sanders asked Americans to learn a bit from Denmark a few years ago.

Elizabeth Warren is not running, yet at Code Conference in less than two minutes she articulated what ails America and what Americans must do to reclaim their government.



“The only way we get change,” Elizabeth Warren said. “is when enough people in this country say I’m mad as hell and I’m fed up and I am not going to do this anymore.” She then laid out the narrative as demands. “You are not going to go back and represent me in Washington DC if you are not willing to pass a meaningful infrastructure bill. If you are not willing to refinance student loan interest rates and stop dragging in billions of dollars of profits off the backs of kids who otherwise can’t afford to go to college. If you don’t say you are going to fund the NIH and the NISF because that is our future. We have to make these issues salient and not just wonky.” Warren then lays out the method via the personalization of the message. “These have to be the things that you wake up people all over America and say — what matters? Whether or not you are going to have a job. Whether or not you are going to have a retirement. Whether or not your kids are going to have any chance to build a future for them. It’s gotta be about these core issues. And we’ve gotta to talk about them enough until there is some real change in this country.”

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