The DSA Left attacks on Warren are cranking up

[crazytown]

Don’t Trust Elizabeth Warren’s Big-Donor Ban
Jacobin Mag, Sept 10, 2019
https://jacobinmag.com/2019/09/elizabeth-warren-2020-big-donor-ban-bernie-sanders-corporate-money/

(snip)When she announced her presidential campaign this year, Warren promised to eschew the traditional top-dollar donor circuit. But, as Shane Goldmacher points out, “Last winter and spring, she transferred $10.4 million in leftover funds from her 2018 Senate campaign to underwrite her 2020 run, a portion of which was raised from the same donor class she is now running against.”

Her campaign treasurer, meanwhile, is “a key benefactor and rainmaker for Democratic political committees” with a fat Rolodex of wealthy liberal super-PAC donors. Add to this the fact that Warren has stated clearly that she’ll drop her big-donor ban during the general election if she wins the primary, and a picture starts to emerge of a candidate who is not particularly committed to keeping the donor class at arm’s length.

Warren was schmoozing in Silicon Valley and Martha’s Vineyard right up until her reelection to the Senate in November 2018. By her own account, she intends to revive the practice if she wins the nomination in July 2020. Explaining why, she told the Young Turks, “Look, I do not believe in unilateral disarmament. We need to win. We need to win in 2020. When we hit 2020 and we’re in a race with Donald Trump . . . we got to be all in.”

(snip) Warren’s campaign strategy has been to promote the idea that she’s every bit as progressive as Sanders, only with more fleshed-out plans. To shore up that impression, she’s smartly opted to forego big money for the time being. But laudable though the decision is, “for the time being” won’t cut it. To make lasting change in working-class people’s lives, we need leaders who aren’t afraid to make enemies of capitalists — to be feared by them, not just for a short stint, but for life.

The Democratic Party has always been a cross-class institution. Its base is majority working-class, while its figureheads and functionaries have largely come from the elite and bent over backward to protect capitalist interests. In exchange for that protection, the party has received a steady influx of capitalist dollars to sustain its electoral operations. While some industries (tobacco, fossil fuels, defense) reliably back Republicans, others (finance, real estate, tech, entertainment, health care) tend to tilt to the Democrats, and the Democrats like it that way.

[Kurt V.]

1. I'm not concerned about that at all. Ultimately it will be about 3% of the electorate

[demmiblue]

4. Neither am I... didn't even bother to read it all the way through.

People like the drama, though.

[Cha]

2. It's good you're Exposing them, IMHO!

Thank you, crazytown

[Cha]

3. Oh and Bull*****..

The Democratic Party has always been a cross-class institution. Its base is majority working-class, while its figureheads and functionaries have largely come from the elite and bent over backward to protect capitalist interests.

[Saviolo]

5. As though those nebulous "capitalists" don't already hate Warren.

She's been poking at the Wall Street Bear for years, now. She might as well be in one of those clickbait ads: "Senator from MA found one weird trick to break up too-big-to-fail banks! Capitalists hate her!"

DealBook Briefing: Elizabeth Warren Has Wall Street and Big Tech in Her Sights

Indignant Wall Street CEO Just Betting Elizabeth Warren to Key His Car

Elizabeth Warren Unveils Legislation to Hold Wall Street Executives Criminally Accountable

Howard Schultz: Elizabeth Warren's Programs "Will Lead To Socialism In America"

[paulkienitz]

7. Absolutely. She couldn't win friends on Wall Street now if she were trying.

[4now]

6. I am sure she will do the right thing when the time is right

[Blue_true]

8. What Senator Warren is doing and plans to do makes eminent sense.

I just don't get the mindset that because people are rich, they are also out to always take advantage.

[George II]

9. Who needs to observe the "Unity Pledge" when you have supporters and surrogates like DSA.

[crazytown]

11. Is it possible to be a member of the Democrats and the Green Party at the same time?

If not, why are DSA members allowed in the Democratic Party ?

[George II]

12. I heard some contrived story that DSA isn't really a "party". Go figure.

[BlueMississippi]

10. David Sirota and company is spinning its wheels

He and his kind see Senator Warren a threat in their zeal to convert the USA into Bernieland.

DSA, OR, TYT, BNC are all one organization with the same people in charge, many of whom voted for Jill Stein.

So the attacks. I am sure Senator Warren can handle it. David Sirota is scum.

[George II]

13. Not to mention Justice Democrats. Every one of those organizations have intertwined....

....founders and board members.

The only one missing is the Green Party, and Nina Turner was tight with Jill Stein at the "People's Convention".

[kcr]

14. That's funny. They share a common cause with the capitalist elites

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/cramer-wall-street-executives-are-saying-elizabeth-warrens-2020-bid-has-got-to-be-stopped/ar-AAH5zWQ?li=BBnbfcN

They're all gunning for her now.

[crazytown]

15. Cramer was talking about the banks. They have reason to fear her.

Elizabeth decapitated Wells Fargo twice - secured the resignation of their CEOs twice following interrogation in Committee.

[comradebillyboy]

17. Jacobin.mag is a bad joke. nt