TownieDeac
words are futile devices
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Well TOWNIE wants MAGA to win! And Shoo wants to BOMB Israel out of existence! And all of them think their INTERESTS are SPECIAL!!!!!!
The tweet thread I posted made a basic point that a party people who disagree with each other coming together to figure out something that works well enough for all of them is normal politics and a reasonable way to govern. A party of people who have no interest in being part of the process is not.
For the last 25 years the manchins and sinemas have insisted on taking good programs and adding administrative complexity via means testing for minimal budget savings (if any) in service of being able to sell themselves to their constituents as fiscally prudent. That narrow view, which rarely works with voters, makes programs actively worse for Americans. It clogs up the works in passing bills, and it does the job of Republicans for them. The idea that because progressives are trying to hold votes means they aren't interested in being part of the process is absurd. Manchin and Sinema aren't part of the process, they're just collecting checks and digging heels in.