Yep. Power and corruption are at the center of her worldview

[BeckyDem]

( Warren 2020 )


Warren has released many policy proposals on many topics, but her signature initiative and top priority addresses political corruption, which she sees as the connective tissue linking many social ills.

“The reason the United States is where it is on climate is corruption,” Warren spokesperson Chris Hayden told Vox’s Umair Irfan when he was reporting a story on her climate agenda. “We need to rein in the economic and political power of Big Oil to get serious about addressing climate change — which is why the first thing Elizabeth would do as president is pass her anti-corruption bill, which would end lobbying as we know it.”

Working on bankruptcy, Warren came to see corruption more than bad ideas as driving bad bankruptcy policy. And having served some years in Washington, she now sees that same corruption everywhere — infecting everything from climate policy to bank regulation to antitrust law to white-collar crime and beyond.

https://www.vox.com/2019/6/26/18715614/elizabeth-warren-2020-presidential-campaign-policies

[SouthernProgressive]

1. Read this about an hour ago. Worth the time. NT

[Prospero1]

2. the problem with that bill...

is that the very corruption it addresses would prevent it from being passed. (not that I wouldn't like to see it passed)

[unblock]

3. sometimes it takes a defeat to set the stage for victory.

in politics, you often don't get what you want on the first try.

but it gets the topic into the national discourse, and hopefully it passes later, even if much later.

obamacare likely would not have passed had it not been for hillarycare bringing the topic to national attention in the '90s.

[BeckyDem]

5. True!

[sandensea]

4. And the powerful and/or corrupt don't like it

They prefer someone who likes the idea.