FORMER CONGRESSMAN JOHN DELANEY
The former representative from Maryland is yet another candidate hoping to catch fire from the middle ground. Let me run through just a handful of reasons a moderate cannot and should not win the nomination: Climate catastrophes, mass shootings, runaway technology, income inequality, climate change and climate change.
Delaney supports Free Trade, including Fast Track legislation and the Trans Pacific Partnership. He believes Trump's trade war with China is representative of Fair Trade. He is wrong. Fair Trade requires representation of labor and labor interests. Trump may be the most anti-labor president in history.
JFK didn't say we want our children to dream of going to the moon someday; he said we would go to the moon by the end of the decade. The nation desperately needs someone with the same urgency on climate change. It will not come from the middle ground.
CONGRESSWOMAN TULSI GABBARD
The nation's first Samoan American and Hindu member of congress, Tulsi Gabbard represents the second congressional district of Hawaii. Gabbard is a leader of the movement to stop supporting the Saudi slaughter in Yemen. A veteran of the tragic war in Iraq, she strongly opposes the nation's reckless entanglements in the Middle East. She opposes military intervention in Venezuela. She endorsed Bernie Sanders in the last presidential election and falls in line with Bernie's politics. She wants Medicare for All and supports the Green New Deal. Anyone who does not should switch parties.
Gabbard has attracted controversy in her interactions with Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India and Bashar al Assad of Syria. Much ado about nothing. She does not endorse either leader. She is a Fair Trade advocate and a leading opponent of American imperialism. She stood with the Standing Rock warriors against the Dakota Access Pipeline. If you take those stands, you will be criticized.
There is a lot to like in the young representative from Hawaii. She is seemingly fearless and speaks out whenever she perceives wrongdoing. She deserves the support of all Sanders supporters who want someone younger. If she secures a place on the debate stage she will be heard and I for one will stand and applaud.
GOVERNOR JAY INSLEE
"Inslee is the only candidate in the race who is treating climate change the way that science says climate change should be treated: not as one issue among many, but as the overriding emergency of our age." - Ezra Klein, Vox 5/13/19.
The Green Governor of the state of Washington was the first to step forward and proclaim climate change as the central issue of the 2020 presidential election. Beto O'Rourke was the second. He is of course right. All politicians like to talk about our children and grandchildren, our legacy and our posterity. Few politicians match their policies to their rhetoric.
The naysayers of Global Warming proclaim that the whole Climate Catastrophe scare is a hoax perpetrated by a cabal of elites determined to reconstitute the planet under their control. These clever conspiracy theorists have captured the precise opposite of the truth. What is the truth? That a cabal of elites have perpetrated the lie that global warming is a hoax to protect their interests until the last drop of oil and the last block of coal are spent.
Governor Inslee is out to prove that the Green New Deal is not only environmentally but also economically sound. Under his leadership Washington has pushed through legislation on clean energy, energy efficient buildings, electric vehicles and efficiency standards. He tried and failed to pass a carbon tax.
Inslee correctly points out that placing Climate Change on a long or even short list of priorities virtually assures that nothing of substance will happen. Obama never got past health care or rather, health insurance reform and Trump has failed to accomplish anything after tax cuts for the wealthy.
Yes, I wish the governor had more style but he has substance. At this early stage in the process those who are inclined should contribute to the cause of getting his message on the debate stage.
FORMER HUD SECRETARY JULIAN CASTRO
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