As everyone knows, Senator Elizabeth Warren has declared, and now Representative Tulsi Gabbard. I'd vote for either, and am happy they are in the game. But since presidential elections are now heavily influenced by the garbage media (e.g., Fox) and the brainless Internet, the real question is who will manage this environment the best? And, of course, who will beat the monster-child? Ocasio-Coretz, the newly elected Representive from the Bronx/Queens has been driving the right-wing crazies even crazier, so Senator Warren and Representative Gabbard should take pointers from her.
I'm actually slightly hopeful for America that these folks are on the national stage. The real value of life has nothing to do with congressional elections, or interest rates, or the stock market, or immigration policy: it has to do with creating space for human beings to be human beings, and realize their endlessly fascinating capacities. I'm generally pessimistic about how much this can happen under capitalist relations of production, but maybe some of these folks can push off the inevitable catastrophe that is capitalism? And maybe they can push it off long enough for an alternative to be found?
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