• finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    But when the 111th congress voted on Public Option Healthcare it came up 1 vote short because the Caucusing Independent Joe Liebermen voted Nay alongside every republican.

    They effectively didn’t have 60, despite the caucus.

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      5 days ago

      yeah that’s exactly my point, hence my original comment about general election majority not meaning anything without voting for actual progressives if not leftists in primaries

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          4 days ago

          it doesn’t, i repeated the same thing. you can’t vote harder in general elections to make change without voting local and in primaries for actual progressives first. let’s see if someone gets confused again so I can rephrase the same thing a fourth time

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        5 days ago

        Every DNC voted Yay for actual progressive policy.

        I’m saying we need to put 60 of them in the Senate, and you made some stupid point about how 58 of them is basically 60.

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          5 days ago

          that’s distinction without difference. Bernie is independent, Sinema and Manchin were democrats. getting democratic seats no matter who it is won’t change anything.

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              5 days ago

              it wasn’t because he’s independent. it’s because he’s joe fucking lieberman, obama’s best bud… again, Sinema and Manchin were democrats. they still fucked over progressives.