Marianne might win. I’m serious. Right now the media is jumping all over her past statements about medicine. She is not against medicine she just thinks there’s far more to wellness and healing than drugs...and yes, there’s a lot more work to do in understanding and combatting something like depression besides pharmaceuticals. Pills don’t cure loneliness, they don’t cure emotional trauma. It’s deeper than biology. As for vaccines, she had her daughter vaccinated...she favoured that choice...she is just not sure they should be mandatory. In a way that causes more people to rebel against them...because, they don’t like being told what to do with their bodies, and quite frankly there are a lot of reasons not to trust big pharma...and we should all be a bit skeptical while at the same time, discerning, about whether we are supporting public health or corporate wealth, and in what instances.
The mainstream media gave too much airtime to DJT, now they are worried and trying to nip Marianne in the bud. I knew she’d get an eye roll from the public...but now that I’ve watched her, I think she is right about every single thing she has said on the debate stage, every position she holds in the current debates makes sense...except about Medicare for all. She is walking that back now. Or at least how it came out. She consulted with her supporters after the debate.
That’s refreshing.
Let’s face it, she’d be a lot more savvy, and compassionate, as president, than Trump. She is not stupid, or nearly as flakey as portrayed, when she speaks. It looks like Trump fans want her to win the Dem nomination because they want some kind of battle of spiritual forces. She would win that “duel”. I think she’s exactly the right person to go up against him (and there’s a non zero chance that could happen). She is right that policy wonks trying to go back to the pre-Trump past are not a match for Trump, election-wise. But that is not to say she wouldn’t have policies. She’s just not hammering out the details on all of them yet because making detailed policy promises hardly ever works out anyway. It can’t, because creating and implementing actual policy is a process that does (and should) involve other people.
For me, so far:
Sanders and Warren about equal favourites.
Marianne is my favourite outlier. If she doesn’t get on the Presidential or VP ticket I think she should have an important position in the cabinet. I like her that much, and I’m kind of surprised by that. But politics...including in Canada, needs visionaries and people who inspire positive change, not just wonks.
The mainstream media gave too much airtime to DJT, now they are worried and trying to nip Marianne in the bud. I knew she’d get an eye roll from the public...but now that I’ve watched her, I think she is right about every single thing she has said on the debate stage, every position she holds in the current debates makes sense...except about Medicare for all. She is walking that back now. Or at least how it came out. She consulted with her supporters after the debate.
That’s refreshing.
Let’s face it, she’d be a lot more savvy, and compassionate, as president, than Trump. She is not stupid, or nearly as flakey as portrayed, when she speaks. It looks like Trump fans want her to win the Dem nomination because they want some kind of battle of spiritual forces. She would win that “duel”. I think she’s exactly the right person to go up against him (and there’s a non zero chance that could happen). She is right that policy wonks trying to go back to the pre-Trump past are not a match for Trump, election-wise. But that is not to say she wouldn’t have policies. She’s just not hammering out the details on all of them yet because making detailed policy promises hardly ever works out anyway. It can’t, because creating and implementing actual policy is a process that does (and should) involve other people.
For me, so far:
Sanders and Warren about equal favourites.
Marianne is my favourite outlier. If she doesn’t get on the Presidential or VP ticket I think she should have an important position in the cabinet. I like her that much, and I’m kind of surprised by that. But politics...including in Canada, needs visionaries and people who inspire positive change, not just wonks.
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