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Elizabeth Warren introduces Senate bill to hold capitalism ‘accountable’ (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] ChicoSuave 20 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Elizabeth Warren has been terrible at her job but successful at poisoning progressive movements in the US. She worked for banks before becoming a senator and was deeply involved in undercutting Bernie Sanders' support in 2016. Don't believe a word she says because it is literally there to cloud the truth.

[–] pdxfed 4 points 5 days ago

Warren has done good work at the CFPB. She undercut Bernie because she was incredibly competent and knowledgeable, and granted to the right of him a bit politically but almost anyone elected in government is. She would have been a much better choice than Billary, has progressive receipts and would have spoken to economic issues that pull in more voters; instead the Democratic party fucked Sanders and anointed Hillary who was running a platform of "bomb Iran" in the primaries and made the job easy for the media who had decades of Clinton material to pull from.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

I don't think this is true. What do you mean by "deeply involved"? Just that she didn't endorse him, or something else?