Marianne Williamson<\/a><\/p>\nLaugh all you want, you cynical bastards. I KNOW she has no chance in hell. I know she’s tainted with new-age and that most people think that rhymes with sewage. <\/p>\n
But her talking points are all in the right place. Plus she used her closing statement to school Donny Tinyhands on the Politics of Love, and how it shall triumph over fear. I know that this is magical thinking, a statement about how the world should work, instead of how it does work. And even so, in a perfect world or even a good one, I’d vote for her in preference to anything else on offer. <\/p>\n
Honorable mention to Mike Gravel, who didn’t make the debate cut and seems to be just in the race at all to have an anti-war voice. <\/p>\n
2) Sanders<\/p>\n
3) Warren<\/p>\n
Group Two
\nCastro, Buttigieg, Inslee, Gabbard, and oh what the hell, Yang, sorta.<\/p>\n
Group Three
\nGillibrand, Harris, DeBlasio, Booker
\nBy this point we’re getting to mainstream Obama-style Dems that might or might not get serious about actual structural change. Harris, in particular, will probably be the pick of the Party Machine if Biden implodes. This probably explains her strong and effective attacks on him during tonight’s event. <\/p>\n
Just Say No
\nSwalwell
\nHickenlooper
\nBennet
\nKlobuchar
\nRyan
\nDelaney
\nThe Beto
\nThe Biden
\nAll more or less fatally flawed, many in the pocket of Big Energy and on the record as against the Green New Deal, etc.<\/p>\n
Non-debaters
\nMoulton
\nSestak
\nBullock
\nMessam
\n… and even Justin Amash, the best of the Repubs, who is said to be considering running as a Libertarian. <\/p>\n
Alright then. Mission accomplished, and comments open. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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