I bet, among all democrats, those 8 are a lot richer now than they were when they first entered the lucrative career of politics.
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Henry Ceullar is a Republican in every way that counts. He had his chief advisor set up a dark money operation that funneled money from Mexico and Azerbaijan to support his campaigns against progressive primary challengers in return for political favors.
A bunch of people whose jobs exist because of the socialist practice of combining taxes to pay for government services, have condemned socialism.
Morons.
The capitalist state isn't socialist in any capacity. Public ownership and publicly run industry under capitalism supports the extension and expansion of capital alone. Taxation isn't socialism either. Socialism is a mode of production and distribution at a societal level, where public ownership is the principal aspect of the economy and the working classes dominate the state.
Presumably, the distrubution would need to be managed by rules, and someone needs to make those. Congress is supposed to represent the working class as elected officials.
I view schools, the fire departments, and the idea of the public owning the government as a fundamental aspect of socialism.
Under capitalism, the rich stole the representation and the rich raped the education funding to pay for private schools for white kids. The fire departments are still good but only because we pay out of pocket with large personal donations.
The whole idea is that the population controls the gov, nit the other way around. The reality is much different.
Wait, 8? Out of two 214? So that means 206 democrats didn't do that knowing how much it's actually terrible politically? That's a pretty good result, I wonder why nobody is talking about how good it is, huh?
Marie Gluzencamp Perez is 100% a maga republican she votes with them basically always and misrepresents her self at every opportunity to the point I knew she would be ok this list
That just tells us who needs to go next.
I actually haven't had the time to look this up. Are there any good examples of Dems that lose their seats over this kind of behavior? The party is pretty infamously anti-socialist even though it appropriates much of the social justice rhetoric that people associate with socialism
What this is actually about:
This is pure Republican PR. They included a poison pill in the resolution so that Democrats would vote against it, and then they can associate those Democrats with socialism. The reality is that far more than 8 Democrats would have voted in favor of the resolution of it hadn't included that.
So democrats hate their left flank so much, they're happy to assist their best buddy trump in killing democracy.
Complicit. All the time.
So the idiotic democratic politicians prefer to vote with republicans than be associated with socialism when dems will learn to stop getting preoccupied about what the republicans fascists think of them
If the DSA were pro-genocide, centrists wouldn't be siding with trump yet again.
Now do fascism.
They're already doing it
Red Scare 4 folks.
that one stings. too soon.
My DEMOCRATIC Congressman is on that list, of course. His office gets a call from me tomorrow. He's such a smarmy loser. I fucking HATE that guy.
Sure, but when the primaries end, most of the people bad-mouthing him will fall in line and vote for him anyways because of a letter next to his name.
Too bad it already did. Henry Cuellar won his party primary in May, and he’s on the November general ballot. So the only options are vote for him, or give it to a Republican.
If you can't tell, I wish you folks cared about the makeup of the Democrat party as much as you cared about the Republicans.
Dude, I voted in the primaries and very much voted against him, but he still won. He’s so damn conservative there was chatter he was going to switch parties.
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What a good use of time! This really goes a long way towards dispelling the notion that the government is corrupt and incompetent! /s
Is this as useless as a "strongly worded letter"? I think this is pandering more than anything else
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What a funny coincidence... Both of my middle fingers unanimously voted to condemn Congress in all its forms.
So no more postal service, no more roads, no more trash collectors, right
Socialism is when the government does things. The more things it does, the socialister it is
-Carl Marks
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Well, now you clearly know who to vote out come the primaries.
Except the Primary (for Cuellar) was back in May and be won it. November is the general election against a Republican.
Ha. One of them is Henry Cuellar. Party leadership supported him in the primary the last time he had a progressive challenger, and it was because of votes like this.
They claimed it was because he was the incumbent. But Cori Bush and Jamaal Bowman were both incumbents, only they weren't singlemindedly genocidal like every last centrist at all times, so they got no protection.
And Ken Martin hasn't fixed shit. He is currently presiding over the party's push against the non-genocidal wing.
Lets see what shockingly small number of the nays can actually explain what socialism is.
They really have nothing better to do, that they are "allowed" to do by their parties do they?
Pathetic.
Hopefully this will be enough to make it crystal clear that these people are on the same side, the side of the Epstein class.
Didn't they already do exactly this in Trump's first presidency?
Remember those names if a revolution ever comes. They'll try to claim they're on your side, only to backstab and sell you out.
revolution? "Revolution!?!" Just as I have pointed out elsewhere, as soon as the primaries are over -voters that were previously bad-mouthing these congress-people will fall in line and vote them back into office just for the letter next to their name. There will be no revolution when voters refuse to even hold their own representatives accountable.
Well, then why don't we start planning it? If someone with the know-how to setup and host an actually secure platform for us to plan, I would pitch in to the best of my ability.
If you live in the US, you likely live near a PSL branch. You can check out their party program and see if it aligns with your views!
Totally schway. Thanks for the info.
No problem!
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Guess those Democrats In Name Only faced or are facing primaries against Socialist Democrats?
I wish. My rep is on there and we had 2 progressive challengers, but near as I can tell, no real support and the result was him winning with like 70%+ of the vote.
This is the kind of place where people will shoot themselves in the foot before they vote for anyone who might raise taxes or stop bombing brown people.
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