A hat in the ring

Elizabeth Warren launches exploratory committee ahead of likely 2020 presidential run

If nominated I will of course vote for her, since the Republican opposition will inevitably be a Trumpist at worse - and likely Bozo in person - and, though perhaps without the label, a Randian radical bare-knuckle capitalist committed to the destruction of every jot of progressivism in government at best.

And, in the latter case, very likely also opposed, though much more quietly, to all or nearly all of the achievements of liberal courts since Warren in kicking Christian social and sexual morality out of the law.

We are very far from the days when Nixon ran as a big government liberal while pointing to McGovern as too far left and radical.

And was telling the truth, though his history of anti-communism in the Congress enabled his opponents and enemies to deny him that label, despite the hostility toward him and his domestic politics of movement conservatives of the time.

But I hope she is not nominated.

More anti-capitalist, anti-white, and anti-American than Bernie and at least as misandrist as Hillary, she amply deserves the adjectives "shrill" and "left-wing", and perhaps also "socialist".

And while Bernie's agenda was quite popular I still have reservations about single payor giving too much - and too exclusive - market power to a government funded and controlled institutional consumer of medical services by making it effectively the only consumer of medical services.

I do not want the direction of medical or pharmacy research dictated by the state according to somebody's political or moral agenda, any more than R&D in any other part of the economy.

Nor do I agree with her mucking around with experiments in worker control and the like.