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It's a good thing they're all retiring because they're a bunch of insanely naive pathetic cowards... Oh boy oh boy you "secured" a vote where Republicans will just repeat their "no, fuck your healthcare" but in the form of a vote.
Bravo.
They're not all retiring, the ones who aren't just aren't up for re-election next year, giving plenty of time for people to forget about it.
They're all retiring at the end of their terms if they like it or not.
Just make sure we have a good candidate in the primary. And we need to actually support people who are better before their primaries.
I wish. Voters tend to blindly vote for the same people over and over.
Yeah. We need to fight that in a smart way.
You can't just say all Dems are bad. You can't just say all incumbents are bad. Term limits aren't the answer, and probably wouldn't help with most of these.
We need to get good candidates in primaries and support those candidates. Now is the time to be doing this. We need someone to step up for that seat, ideally this month, and we need to get behind them.
Ideally it'd be someone with enough history to show they're not a Sinema.
Primaries are controlled by a private corporation that can literally so anything they want. The two party system freezes out anyone else unless they are acceptable to one of the two private corporations that control the "D" and "R" ballot.
https://time.com/7280045/voters-should-pick-their-candidates-not-party-bosses/
The system is set up to make it incredibly difficult for a Bernie, AOC, or Mamdani to get into office. It's always a small miracle when one manages to.
These sort if miracles are slowly becoming more common. If this goes on, they'll be commonplace.
But you do need to have the candidates. Get the right, and when campaign time comes, remind the voters who voted away their health care.
Well, that part of the system is fixed. There was a cost to that fix, so please make it worth it.
Almost like Schumer planned it that way