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The more I hear about @ewarren's "solutions" the less I support her. Her proposed policies sound mostly like wonky technocratic regulatory schemes, not actual solutions. We have seen these type of elaborately conceived concessions to the market fail time and time again.
This post is an excellent example of what I mean. Will a $500 perscription be any more practically affordable for the average American? No.
Sure, it will prevent some price gouging, but the problem is clearly not the existence of an arbitrary price cap.
Sure, it will prevent some price gouging, but the problem is clearly not the existence of an arbitrary price cap.
Or this. Sure, forgiving some arbitrary amount of student loans that were accrued under predatory pricing schemes is good. But this sort of half-measure is not a solution, it is prescribing opium to a dying cancer patient.
Or, for example, her capitulation to the military-industrial complex. Insofar as the military exists, should it be made more green? Yes. But once again, she misses the forest for the trees. The military needs massive cuts. It is a bloated monstrosity.
Warren wants a technocratic zombie capitalism, propped up in all its failures by a remedial state. Sanders wants a socialist cultural transformation and a leftist reformulation of workers' rights, enabling them to subvert capitalism and build class power.
Warren does not want to move the Overton Window, she wants to soften the blow as the boot of capitalism stomps on the neck of the people. Bernie wants to raise class consciousness and rally the exploited toward a transformative struggle. These are no small differences.
As Bernie marches with McDonald's workers, excoriates the board of Wal-Mart to their faces, and emphasizes the need for worker management, Warren offers some low hurdles against capital exploitation, viewing state management as a solution to the system's inherent contradictions.
