This is Bernie broism at its finest. You're making am implication that Warren doesn't want the same amount of progressives in office as Bernie or the same quality of progressives as Bernie based on nothing other than Bernie's slogan and some clubs he set-up. This is the problem.
If you have a real crtitique of Warren as not progressive enough based on the policy platforms you are intent on elevating to gospel or law by all means make them... but implying what Warren is about based on things Bernie says is a false argument
It's not that Warren won't. It's that I know that Bernie will because he has demonstrated as much since 2016 and makes it an active part of his messaging (where as Warren doesn't). And after cutting my teeth as a canvasser / phone banker / organizer for Obama (in 08') and watching him completely ignore us while in office, I'm a touch more jaded when it comes to the way Democrats treat the progressive base. I've alluded to the policies that trouble me with Warren (ala the fact that she is going to take corporate cash in the general, the fact that she has gone luke-warm in pushing for Medicare for All) and/or past actions (her silence on Standing Rock is a huge deal to me) while repeatedly saying that there is plenty to like and that she is hands down my 2nd option. My worst fear is that we get neither of them because they split the primary vote and hand us Biden.
You seem intent on picking a fight (i.e. repeatedly calling me a Bernie Bro). which is why I ignored your previous comment. I say-- these states in the Midwest look great for Bernie and then you counter with "the midwest in not monolithic"... I'm pretty sure that by saying places like MI/WI should be very kind to Bernie while acknowledging that he has no chance in a place like India (with it's hotbed of libertarianism) is the exact opposite of treating the middle of the country as monolithic.
Lastly, I view the ideological split as far more of a generational issue than one of geography or ethnicity. See the fact that more people my age view socialism favorably than capitalism. Or that more of us voted for Bernie than Trump or Clinton combined (and even when you combine them, the gap was large). Or the fact that when I graduated high school in 05, Colorado was a proudly libertarian state full of new money, upper middle class whites who were staunchly conservative. Since then, millenials from all over the Midwest have poured into the state much like kids from areas surrounding Illinois have done with Chicago. In that process the state has gone from deeply red to purple to safely blue. And not just blue, but progressive as all fuck blue. They just elected a the most progressive Governor in the nation specifically because a bunch of kids from Michigan, Ohio, New Mexico, Iowa, Minnesota, ext have flooded the state over the past 15 (and especially 10) years. Part of the rural/urban divide we are seeing actually stems from the fact the millenials have abandoned rural areas because the jobs are in cities (even if those cities are insanely expensive to live in).
Meanwhile, Jared Polis (who ran without taking money from corporate sources) has done more to shift paradigms than CA's collection of neoliberal hacks have done in my 14 years in CA. He was supposed to be the candidate that was too progressive, too jew, too gay to be electable. The guy who could win mayorship of Boulder but would fail in a statewide election. Yet he won comfortably. And since then, Pre-K funding, cementing 100% renewable on rapid timeline into law, decriminalized possession of hard drugs in small doses, reworked sex-ed curriculum and capped insulin prices have all become a reality. He just keeps getting shit done. And it's been like 7 months.
Also, should anybody want a breakdown in the differences between Warren and Sanders:
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. Biden is scummy and I would feel like I was throwing my vote away to vote for him. I would feel less ill about voting for any other dem candidate.
