Anyway, I posted this because multiple rightoids tried to argue with me and claim I was wrong and Sinema was totally fine and popular among Arizona dems.
I claimed Sinema was in a lot of danger, because she isn;t Joe Manchin. The DNC is gaining ground in arizona and can't ignore the left-wing activist bloc or they risk sinking turnout in the state.
Surprise surprise, this is the exact reasoning the state party is now rejecting Sinema:
But she faces political dynamics unlike the other Senate moderate thwarting Democratic ambitions, Joe Manchin of West Virginia. Representing a state that former President Donald Trump carried by nearly 39 percentage points in 2020, Manchin is unlikely to face a progressive challenger who would gain traction.
In Arizona, however, Democrats are ascendant. Joe Biden was the first Democratic presidential candidate to carry the state since 1996, and the party is eager to build on that success. That makes it harder for a Democrat to simply ignore the left here, particularly in a primary election.
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My favorite part of this political theatre is how the filibuster wasn't racist or "a jim crow relic" when the dems used it 328 times their last time in minority.
And when they lose their majority and start using it again, it suddenly won't be racist or "a jim crow relic" anymore.
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The filibuster literally is rooted in a racist past.
Either way, the filibuster only benefits Republicans.
Republicans base their brand on having no policy agenda and the federal government doing nothing. Democrats do not.
In fact, I would argue the only dems in the senate that argue in favor of it are themselves conservatives that know once progressive policy is passed, it will be almost impossible to repeal.
Because there's no strategic reason to keep it, there's exactly 0 benefits to the democratic band in keeping the filibuster. And if conservatives didn't have the filibuster to lean on, they'd be forced into passing deeply unpopular policy thus causing them to bleed electoral support even faster.
You can find academics talking about this:
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"There are some ideas so stupid they can only come from academia"-based black econ man
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Literally nothing there is incorrect.
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Again, has no relevance to anything I or he said.
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you can find (((academics))) talking about anything lol
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Eva why do you still try to talk about US politics after being proven a giant r-slur in 2020.
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Keep flailing r-slur.
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So why did the Dems use it over 300 times when they were last in the minority?? Fricking moron
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Because it's still useful for blocking unhinged conservative policy to some extent, but I'd argue more so than that they're just politically illiterate.
Letting Republicans pass laws is amazing for the DNC because the Republican party has no popular policy agenda and would rapidly bleed support in the suburbs.
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lmfao
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Your horse laugh attempts aren't tricking anyone but yourself.
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I hate you pizza
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so's fricking everything in burger history
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Yeah, but so what?
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Iβm still anti-EC, even though obstensibly itβs the left that benefits from obfuscated and complex election methods.
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