"Elizabeth Warren: Dems must "stand up and fight""

Warren is a brilliant economist who embraces the core values of most Americans, but I don't anticipate her ever moving into the White House. Her intelligence and common sensical approach to governance is anathema to a sizable portion of the electorate - the inevitable hyper-partisan dung-flingers aside.

Jeff Flake may well be the best the GOP has to offer, but he doesn't have the remotest chance of being nominated because electability requires a comforting element of mediocrity. The democratic system generally works against the best as well as the worst, and the exceedingly rare FDR requires extraordinary circumstances to arise. (Cue those tedious dung-flingers again!)

A supporter of presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson once called out, "Governor, all thinking people are for you!" Stevenson answered, "That's not enough. I need a majority."

I do not denigrate the American voter; I just think she/he vehemently embraces modest goals.

 

""You built a factory out there? Good for you," she says. "But I want to be clear: You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for; you hired workers the rest of us paid to educate; you were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory, and hire someone to protect against this, because of the work the rest of us did."

As for the tax implications, Warren said, "Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific, or a great idea? God bless. Keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is, you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along." The crowd enthusiastically applauded."

That is NOT the statement of a brilliant economist. That is the statement of an idiot leftist.