Elizabeth Warren: Our Populist Agenda - in Her Own Words

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9. Sounds good,

but how can that be done if the over-riding rhetoric of war, terrorist menaces, Islamic enemies, Russian enemies, and on and on, isn't replaced by a rhetoric which addresses those same issues in a different and more benign way?

I've yet to hear that. I'm sorry (I feel contrite, ffs) for saying that, but I'm pessimistic to infinitely close to the nadir with the whole business of US politics. I have no fucking "belief" in it left.

The rhetoric of war, terrorist manaces, ..., has $trillions$ riding on it, and in fact the entire US economy rides on it.

A lot of middle-class US American folk have put their $$ into the war making machinery, whether directly or through their investment accounts. It is, in fact, almost the only game still going for the US economy. War. The total devastation of the planet wherever the war machine lands.