{"id":38240,"date":"2019-11-20T10:01:31","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T18:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=38240"},"modified":"2019-11-20T10:01:31","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T18:01:31","slug":"i-agree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/11\/20\/i-agree\/","title":{"rendered":"I Agree"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am nowhere near as disabled as Ady Barkan.  However, I am also a long term political activist, and my disabilities are also interfering with my activism.  Therefore, I empathize with Ady’s perspective.  In addition, I agree.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"1102Barkan\" <\/p>\n

I have spent my entire career at the messy and vital intersection of movement-building, electoral politics, and governance. And for the past three years, I\u2019ve done that work under the debilitating weight of ALS, a deadly neurological illness that\u2019s robbed me of my ability to do almost all the things that most people take for granted: hug my son, go for a walk with my newborn daughter, or speak to my wife. I was diagnosed three weeks before the 2016 presidential election, and I vividly remember wondering, on that tragic November night, whether I was going to die under President Donald Trump. <\/p>\n

Whom would I like to see replace him? Of the hundreds of elected officials, activists, and policy wonks I have worked with over the past two decades, Elizabeth Warren is the individual who I believe would make the best president<\/strong>. I believe that she, more than any other person in America, has the skills, the temperament, and the knowledge to lead us toward a more just and equitable future<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

Please keep reading, especially if, like me, you\u2019re an admirer of Bernie Sanders. Because I have no intention to diminish his incredible work building our progressive movement or the ways in which his historic campaigns for president have shifted American political discourse<\/strong>. This is, rather, a declaration of how I plan to vote in the California primary, and why I believe in Warren because during her whole career, she has fought to put economic and political power in the hands of working families. I\u2019ve seen up close how she confronts a problem: She listens to the people most affected, does her homework, and then comes up with a plan. A brilliant, workable plan<\/strong>… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <The Nation<\/a>><\/font><\/p>\n

I have shared only the introduction to this extensive article and urge you to click through and read it in his entirety.  It also includes the best explanation of Medicare for All that I have seen.  It shows how her plan is nothing like the Medicare at Gunpoint that some of her opponents either do not understand or are using to mislead. <\/font><\/p>\n

RESIST!!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am nowhere near as disabled as Ady Barkan.  However, I am also a long term political activist, and my disabilities are also interfering with my activism.  Therefore, I empathize with Ady’s perspective.  In addition, I agree. I have spent my entire career at the messy and vital intersection of movement-building, electoral politics, and governance. […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}