Elizabeth Warren 2020?
The Case for Warren in the 2020 Election
Some may know Elizabeth Warren from her comments that she claimed to have Native American Ancestry, and the flack from the Cherokee Nation, Trump, and minorities in her claiming to be Native American herself. This could spiral into a place where we accuse Warren of trying to gain credibility, appropriating, or taking the place of true Native Americans from an opportunity to work at an Ivy League University like Harvard. Although Warren has slipped on her past (like many of the 12 other candidates running for office) I find that if we focus on Warren's ideals and her plan to fix Trump's mess (and history's mess), that Elizabeth Warren may be able to become the next President in the 2020 Democratic Election. Personally, I am in between Sanders, Harris, and Warren for 2020 but, I have to look into them more. Here is my take on the case for Warren in the 2020 Election:
1.) Warren says no to the electoral college.
It has been cycling all day today on CNN. During her town call on Monday in Jackson, Mississippi she firmly stated, "We need a Constitutional Amendment that every American deserves the right to vote and that every vote gets counted."
She confidently stated that we need to repeal all of the voter suppression laws. Warren then made the radical statement that we need national voting which means that we need to get rid of the electoral college. This group of elected representatives that make our vote for us has failed us time and time again. The electoral college famously snubbed Al Gore in 2000 against George W. Bush where he failed to get 270 electoral votes. This flaw has probably caused us years of economic setbacks, not to mention a dent in the health of our planet, and lives lost through Bush's war. If we simply rely on the vote of the people, then our elections are truly fair. I agree with Warren that these tricks in place are long overdue to be eliminated and changed by 2020.
2.) Warren won an honorary doctorate from the History Black College: Morgan State University.
Warren herself was a Law Professor for over 20 years at Harvard. She knows the life of a college student acquiring debts, and how it can be even more challenging to pay off if you are a black student emerging into the dicey world of job selection, and trying to pay off student loans. It is a day in time that minimum wage jobs simply are not living wages. Even after college for black students, it is harder to attain jobs due to biases, discrimination, and passing up opportunities to us. The fact that Warren even acknowledges HBCUs and wants to invest in our students speaks volumes. Warren will not use us for our vote like other candidates. She has known the struggle of living from paycheck to paycheck while growing up which a lot of us as students do. She wants us to be supported. She is more ready to give us the financial freedom that we deserve for our 400 years of building American capitalism by also giving us back our reparations!
3.) Warren was a special needs public school teacher.
Warren's young life was similar to a lot of young people. Although she got a scholarship to a full-time university, she fell in love, and got married at age 19. She paid $50 a semester to get her degree in teaching for special needs children. To choose to teach special needs children takes empathy, patience, kindness, and supportive heart. These values should be the standard in any position of the government, but it is about time that we have a woman president, one that did not grow up in financial privilege, that is a mother, and someone that we want to take care of our children, parents, or grandparents.
4.) Warren wants to tax the super rich.
There is not a person that I know that isn't struggling financially. The middle class, and "lower class" financial stress is so overwhelming that it hurts. I find that the gap between the haves and the have nots has never been higher, and that the have nots are being pushed into homelessness, survival crimes, depression, uncertainty, and panic like never before. I find that so many students have to drop out of college due to financial stress (usually black students) and that the ones that stay in it work so tirelessly that they do not enjoy college life at all. Warren proposes that we can rebuild the middle class by her Ultra-Millionaire Tax. This tax could be used to rebuild the economy in the trillions to universal childcare, student debt relief, the Green New Deal, and Medicare for all!
I like what I am seeing so far from Elizabeth Warren, and I am hoping that she is the candidate to follow through on her promises. I find that candidates say a lot. But, I can hope that the first woman president would be one that stands for all of us. I find that it is long overdue for a woman president. Just like I believe that God has to be a woman because she brings us the ultimate peace, I believe that a woman has to be the healer that will FINALLY swoop in to start to mend America. It is time to end our ego and violence, I think that choosing Warren for 2020 would be a choice for more permanent progressivism.
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