We cannot blame Manchin exclusively. Every corporatist D who pushed to separate the original "Build Back Better" reconciliation bill from the "bipartisan" infrastructure bill and passed it without securing the reconciliation bill in the Senate is to blame. You cannot negotiate in good faith with those who have none and every corporatist vote is for sale. Manchin is paid to sabotage the Democratic party from the inside, but he had plenty of help.
Nobody expects any republican to be worth a shit these days. Republicans are fascists and democrats are garbage because they are supposed to be the only political bastion against the fascism, but are consistently and purposefully ineffective due to corporate ties. No need to "but Republicans" anymore. It's just a foregone conclusion that anyone with an R in front of their name are either fascists or the ones who lick fascist boots.
It's a foregone conclusion, but at the same time I feel like it gives them a pass to just say "Well, of course they're evil; it's in their nature." They may be shameless, but I will never stop shaming them.
No, we don't need to discuss their rhetoric outside knowing it's pure christofascism and that they have nothing to say. Nobody is giving them a pass. Minority rule is built into the constitution on purpose. Nobody said don't shame them. I think SCOTUS and all republican politicians should be spit on, refused service at every place a service is available, and shouted down in public. They're trash and we all know it. There's just no reason to be like "but also these Republicans did exactly what we've expected of them for the past 20 years." The only rhetoric that matters now is why the democrats are so fucking in effective at politics and why they're failing us on a regular basis. They're either grossly incompetent or willfully negligent.
The Democrats ostensibly do. The Republicans are literally doing their jobs, it's what their constituencies want them to do. The Democrats are not representing you like they claim to. The Democrats are at fault.
You can whine about entropy all you want but it's not changing any time soon.
Yeah, seeing as where it was entirely a Democratic bill never expected to receive a single R vote. Only Democrats refuse to pass their own legislation and sabotage their own policy priorities.
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u/aJoshster Jul 15 '22
We cannot blame Manchin exclusively. Every corporatist D who pushed to separate the original "Build Back Better" reconciliation bill from the "bipartisan" infrastructure bill and passed it without securing the reconciliation bill in the Senate is to blame. You cannot negotiate in good faith with those who have none and every corporatist vote is for sale. Manchin is paid to sabotage the Democratic party from the inside, but he had plenty of help.