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I do wonder what did her in.
Was it the fear of losing her seat? Ambitions of power in the party past merely holding a seat?
Money?
Fear of having an 'accident' if she kept it up?
Did she realize she enjoyed being a soulless ghoul?
Or was it all just a facade from the start?
I do not know, but what I do know is this:
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From the first good quota answer I've ever seen
It seems to be relying heavily on her own hagiography, but still gives some insight. She has been very vague about precisely for how long she worked as a bartender in that 5 year period, that somehow manages to contain a good deal of jobs that would normally raise some eyebrows, especially from a sheepdog who started out as an intern for Ted Kennedy.
On the other hand it seems like her entrance into the inner circle of politics was thru the Sanders campaign in '16.
She seems to me to have been a sort of hustling type with an eye for a good opportunity, how best to market herself and what methods to use. It doesn't seem like she was entirely without scruples nor vice versa (whip up a slice of verse pie)
The "started from the bottom" prole picture that is often painted of her, isn't really true either, and her ideology doesn't seem to have been much more than expedient opportunism, though with some sense of having a line that she wouldn't cross and wether or not her living in the Bronx and being the child of an immigrant made her sympathetic to the movements associated to those experiences, or just aware of the fertile and unworked ground... Hard to say, I'm going to say both column B and A.
Now she herself has become the type of person that is vulnerable to an opportunist like she was back then. She is mired in DC, no longer able to see what plays well and what instrument it should be played on. She is firmly removed from the environment that gave her the necessary political insights and she is no longer a hustling up-and-comer hungry for more.
But she's also firmly entrenched now, so it doesn't really matter for her anymore.
Firmly these two, it was an act from the start, but the perks of DC only further solidified her true character
I think she honestly believed she could “work with” the party leadership to move them and the last six years have been her going deeper and deeper into sunk cost bias.
~what?~
oh my god
that last one
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
It was a facade and she has simply adapted her approach from milquetoast gadfly to overt sheepdog for the party.