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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Frank Underwood" data-source="post: 78461" data-attributes="member: 35">Here is a snippet of Warren's prepared speech that pissed off the Democratic establishment.  She took the status quo head on, while championing Democratic values.  If more Democrats had the balls to support the agenda of Warren and Sanders, it's hard to imagine them ever loosing another election.  But as long as donor money is a factor, winning elections will always be a secondary concern to corporate Democrats.Elizabeth Warren:  I look out here and see 3000 progressives, people of every race, gender, religion, and color, all committed to building a better future. I look out here and I see Donald Trump’s worst nightmare.Yes, Trump’s worst nightmare, but also a big threat to everyone who kind of likes things the way they work now. A few weeks ago, I saw an op-ed in the New York Times from a so-called Democratic strategist titled, “Back to the Center, Democrats.”It was all about how we have to stop caring about, quote, “identity politics” and stop waging, quote, “class warfare.” Apparently, the path forward is to go back to locking up non-violent drug offenders and ripping more holes in our economic safety net.I even got a shoutout! Apparently, I’m the face of the problem. So is Bernie. But let’s be really clear here – the real power, the real threat, is not me—it’s you, all of you. It’s your energy, your passion, and your commitment to our values that threaten the bland, business-as-usual establishment.We’ve been warned off before. Give up, keep your heads down, be realistic, act like a grown-up, keep doing the same old same old.But here’s what’s interesting: instead of lots of lots of ferocious back-and-forth and piling on, this time, no one cared. Big yawn. Why? Because the Democratic Party isn’t going back to the days of welfare reform and the crime bill. It is NOT going to happen.We’re not going back to the days of being lukewarm on choice.We’re not going back to the days when universal health care was something Democrats talked about on the campaign trail but were too chicken to fight for after they got elected.And we’re not going back to the days when a Democrat who wanted to run for a seat in Washington first had to grovel on Wall Street.Democrats are heading forward. We are looking ahead – and we will not, we shall not, we must not allow anyone to turn back the clock.Source:  <a href="https://www.vox.com/2017/8/12/16138302/elizabeth-warren-netroots-nation" target="_blank">https://www.vox.com/2017/8/12/16138302/elizabeth-warren-netroots-nation</a></blockquote>

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