Elizabeth Warren’s Anti-Democratic Platform

Jim Kelly
Jim Kelly
Nov 3 · 8 min read
If we elect the Queen of the Platitudes hoping for change, do we deserve whatever we get?

Politicians are notionally our employees. Yet they’re the only help we hire who routinely mislead us about what they’ll do on the job. Would you hire a gardener who wouldn’t tell you which trees he planned to chop down, or a contractor who charged five times as much as he said he would? Probably not. Yet for some reason we accept it as normal for politicians to evade and overpromise and lie.

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