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In reply to the discussion: How Bernie Sanders Helped Derail a Promising Legal Fight Against Gun Violence [View all]Ninsianna
(1,349 posts)One's votes as a sitting US Reoresentative and Senator. Yeah, let us stop this purity ceap, let us stop this false equivalence ceap and judge elected officials by their damned votes as elected officials.
Just a reminder, everyone but Rep. Barbara Lee voted for the AUMF, so whatever some Representative of a small state with a population less than the city of Detroit might have done as a political stunt as opposed to the actual freaking Senator representing NYC after 911 after a crooked admin manufactured intelligence and lied to the Cingress with clearance, is meaningless.
Guess who voted to fund everything th st happened in Iraq. And who voted two other times for regime change there.
Voting records matter. Who is voting for what and why matters.
"We" are not killing the blue wave, we get the blue wave by not playing the games being played here, with equating teenage volunteerism to grown ass adults making bad vites and then pretending they did it for noble reasons that they never bother explaining.
The blue wave requires honest assessments of who candidates are and evaluations of their on the record votes. Like why no on the Brady Bill 5x? Why the hell would you vote to keep the HIV status of rapists from their victims when prevention requires a potent and expensive cocktail of drugs and added stress?
What the fuck about the Amber Alert offended you so much you voted against it?
These are legitimate questions, ones that should have been answered when constituents asked them, should have been party of vetting, and it damn well will be now.
Enough of this petty right wing false equivalence already. I want explanations of why purity meant voting AGAiNST UHC! If this is not a concern then sit back and let people who are actually ensuring the blue wave is a legitimate one do the work the purists are too lazy to do. No more of the purity police using right wing tactics and bull shit to conceal the qntinprogressive records of those who aid and abet the Right.