I’m confident leadership whipped the votes hard on this one, probably as a futile show of unity. That’s where the blame lies.
It would indeed be nice to see a few democrats resisting attacks on the constitution and such but in the house a small number of voices cannot block legislation like in the senate.
I would also like to hear an explanation from AOC just to understand the politics of not acting as the singular democratic “no” vote here. But I’m not going to hold her to task given the obvious failure of leadership.
jdeath@lemm.ee 5 days ago
i lost my faith in our governance while deployed in iraq. nothing i’ve seen since has done anything to restore it. dunno how, but something has to change
LukeZaz@beehaw.org 4 days ago
I agree. My problem now is that people like Tlaib were who I looked to for how things could change, and yet here they are enabling worse instead of fighting for better. I can’t square that circle, and it means I’m losing one of the last bastions of hope I had for a better world.