Makes no sense to me. You’re the opposition party so if you all vote for it, it’s not going to pass anyway. Just vote for it as a signal to voters that you do care. If you can do that song and dance for the minimum wage, why can’t you do it for this?
I mean, obviously this is due to AIPAC having bought all those candidates, but still.
That’s the problem. They’re not, and they don’t want to be. The Democratic Party leadership runs it as the alternative party to the Republican Party and nothing more. There were plenty of opportunities to platform and support actual progressive candidates, but they instead choose to run the same old kind of moderate “don’t rock the boat”-type candidates and court conservative voters in the hopes of leeching votes away from Republicans.
i was surprised it was only half as most of the dems are owned by aipac. dnc leader schumer works overtime to enable israeli warcrimes than fighting trumps lunacy. there is a reason dnc chose loosing the election over condemning israel in any way when they were bombing hospitals full of infants.
if we are to get back our democracy then every aipac backed democrat needs to be kicked to the bottom of each and every primary.
[“My job is to keep the left pro-Israel” -Chuck Schumer](“My job is to keep the left pro-Israel” -Chuck Schumer)
The fact that half of the democrats also voted to kill this is depressing.
Makes no sense to me. You’re the opposition party so if you all vote for it, it’s not going to pass anyway. Just vote for it as a signal to voters that you do care. If you can do that song and dance for the minimum wage, why can’t you do it for this?
I mean, obviously this is due to AIPAC having bought all those candidates, but still.
That’s the problem. They’re not, and they don’t want to be. The Democratic Party leadership runs it as the alternative party to the Republican Party and nothing more. There were plenty of opportunities to platform and support actual progressive candidates, but they instead choose to run the same old kind of moderate “don’t rock the boat”-type candidates and court conservative voters in the hopes of leeching votes away from Republicans.
The signal is that they don’t care because that has the greatest personal benefit for them.
i was surprised it was only half as most of the dems are owned by aipac. dnc leader schumer works overtime to enable israeli warcrimes than fighting trumps lunacy. there is a reason dnc chose loosing the election over condemning israel in any way when they were bombing hospitals full of infants. if we are to get back our democracy then every aipac backed democrat needs to be kicked to the bottom of each and every primary.
[“My job is to keep the left pro-Israel” -Chuck Schumer](“My job is to keep the left pro-Israel” -Chuck Schumer)
Did you mean to paste a source link for that quote?
Any blue will do amirite?