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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsChelsea Manning vows to eliminate US borders, close prisons and abolish ICE
Chelsea Manning vows to eliminate US borders, close prisons and abolish ICE before it commits 'ethnic cleansing' as she campaigns for Maryland Senate seat<snip>
"Manning (left and inset campaigning, right at her home), 30, filed to run in January and has been registered to vote in Maryland since August. She lives in North Bethesda, not far from where she stayed with an aunt while awaiting trial. Her aim is to unseat Sen. Ben Cardin, a 74-year-old Maryland Democrat who is seeking his third Senate term and previously served 10 terms in the U.S. House. 'The rise of authoritarianism is encroaching in every aspect of life, whether it's government or corporate or technological,' Manning said. She says she doesn't, in fact, even consider herself a Democrat, but is motivated by a desire to shake up establishment Democrats who are 'caving in' to President Donald Trump's administration. She's certainly got an eye-catching platform: Close prisons and free inmates; eliminate national borders; restructure the criminal justice system; provide universal healthcare and basic income."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5699757/Chelsea-Manning-vows-eliminate-borders-close-prisons-abolish-ICE.html
JustAnotherGen
(31,907 posts)But at least she is trying! That's good . . . . r-r-r--ight?
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)That's good!
JustAnotherGen
(31,907 posts)I think she's maybe 80 years ahead of her time. If the media is saying 'close all prisons' regarding her platform eh? uh?
Some people do thinks like - MURDER - and um - I want them off the streets.
struggle4progress
(118,356 posts)oasis
(49,410 posts)pennylane100
(3,425 posts)I did not realize she was so extreme.
Initech
(100,105 posts)Fuck the alt right.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)motivated by a high-minded desire to yada, yada. Standard dissident-left desire to kick over the Democratic bucket as a supposed way of battling Trump and authoritarianism. Gee, where have we heard that twisted reasoning before?
Bernie Sanders hasn't endorsed her (of course!), which must frustrate the sympathetic bucket-kickers among his following.
Volaris
(10,274 posts)Can we make that official, and get it added to the Acronyms and Nicknames List?
And, as an aside, I have no problems whatsoever with anyone who is willing to be rational (and work rationally to bring) about, even the most far-reaching or high-minded of Liberal positions.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)our shared goals, instead of sabotaging their best chances to turn them into reality through factional obstructionism. Actions speak louder, and at times infinitely more honestly, than words.
manor321
(3,344 posts)comradebillyboy
(10,176 posts)NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Ratfucker.
Not very intelligent.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,234 posts)Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)That's useful to know.
Cha
(297,731 posts)Inkfreak
(1,695 posts)God forbid I stumble across something vaguely interesting and it not pass muster.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,234 posts)left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)"The 30-year-old leaked over 700,000 secret US military documents to the world
She has since been branded a traitor by many, though insist she is a heroic figure"
EX500rider
(10,872 posts)So just free bank robbers, murderers, rapists, etc?
And Mexico and Canada will have borders with the US if she likes it or not.
JustAnotherGen
(31,907 posts)I'm trying to wrap my head around it all - and yep. Can we maybe like- keep serial rapists off the streets thank you very much?
dalton99a
(81,599 posts)We should free all criminals and give them our PIN numbers!
What an idiot
Cha
(297,731 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)breaking bread with nazis?
haele
(12,681 posts)Learn governance. Realize that whatever you had on the outside that moved you or your agenda forward doesn't work once you're take an office.
Talk and social reputation is nice, but in the swamp that is governance and bureaucracy, to survive, you need to know how to build a bridge, swim, or make a boat as it were.
Very few business people, high profile activists, or celebrities actually make good legislators when they start out. All their "Look at me, I'm going to fix this or that" disappears as soon as they have to actually do the work, when they have to make concessions to get what is best for everyone and the process accomplished. When they have to actually build a reputation for getting things done and working with others.
Executive branch is different. It's got it's own issues, but an experienced, successful businessman or someone who successfully leads an organization with a wide range of goals and people should be able to be president without too much of a learning curve on how the government works, because it's an executive rather than a legislative activity.
In government as in life, there's no magic wand to make others want to follow anyone's lead. Especially at the high levels.
Honestly, Governance is worse than parenting or substitute teaching. It's not something anyone is instantly good at, unless they're a savant. So if one is serious about being a good legislator as a career, one should always start local, or a reasonable facsimile thereof.
Haele
Raine
(30,541 posts)IluvPitties
(3,181 posts)Cha
(297,731 posts)UTUSN
(70,744 posts)Takket
(21,634 posts)LenaBaby61
(6,979 posts)Just PLEASE go away.
Thekaspervote
(32,797 posts)Cha
(297,731 posts)Chelsea needs to get some new insult buzzwords.. those are over done and stale.
She's not a Democrat but running in the Dem Primary? I read when this first came out that Sen Ben Cardin was popular in Maryland and none of that shite that Manning ascribes to him.
I find her a blowhard full of empty words.