2016 Postmortem

liberal_at_heart

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7. Just my opinion but I think he and fellow politicians like Elizabeth Warren were witnessing first

Mon Mar 14, 2016, 01:34 AM

Mar 2016

hand the destruction that corporations buying politicians in order to write legislation that favored corporations was having on this country and no other politicians were willing to run for office with the premise of fighting this influence. I mean look at what deregulating the banks did to our economy in 2008. And now we have politicians negotiating trade policies like TPP that will be disastrous for American jobs. And Citizens United is now allowing corporations to buy elections. Things are bad. He wanted to bring these issues to the attention of the American people because lord knows the media won't do it. Neither will either of the two parties.

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I am not sure if this question has been answered [View all] angstlessk Mar 2016 OP

Because no one was running on a progressive platform this year jfern Mar 2016 #1

This message was self-deleted by its author Hiraeth Mar 2016 #9

+1 daleanime Mar 2016 #11

'Cuz he hoped the rest of us were finally awake/fed up enough to vote for meaningful change? snot Mar 2016 #2

Just speculation on my part. Fuddnik Mar 2016 #3

Yours is the best scenario angstlessk Mar 2016 #14

I think he felt morally obligated. PatrickforO Mar 2016 #4

^THIS. nt silvershadow Mar 2016 #15

To push Hillary left krawhitham Mar 2016 #5

I think that's a big part of it. Garrett78 Mar 2016 #13

I am just glad he did. He brought the political discussions to the left, rusty quoin Mar 2016 #6

Just my opinion but I think he and fellow politicians like Elizabeth Warren were witnessing first liberal_at_heart Mar 2016 #7

I think he got in because he knew they couldn't find anyone better than Hillary who had a shot. beam me up scottie Mar 2016 #8

He does not strike me as power hungry or crazy ambitious. Hiraeth Mar 2016 #10

I think it was because he didn't want a corination, and no one was running against her. napi21 Mar 2016 #12

Because Elizabeth Warren decided not to run Samantha Mar 2016 #16

It was a matter of timeing at two levels:(1) the evoluvtion of public ladjf Mar 2016 #17