You are absolutely right. One cannot find common ground with a regime that is actively destroying our country, and those Democratic politicians who are trying to are hopelessly naive.
I have read extensively on cognitive biases, but I just don’t get when someone like him, an openly practicing Jew, doesn’t just go ape-shit over what is happening.
How does he reconcile his actions on Friday night Shabbat?
Is he no different than the “Christian” politicians who never practice the Beatitudes?
Can you help me formulate a response to dems/independents who push against your insightful stance with the argument that some dems lean into bipartisanship as a way to stay in power given purple constituencies? The thinking is that such concessions are instrumental in getting re-elected and that having a seat for “the really important stuff” is worth, for example, voting for Rubio.
I don’t think people voted for Rubio in order to appeal to swing voters. I think it was a gesture of collegiality since he’d been in the senate.
It strains credulity to think that swing voters (who generally aren’t paying attention) are paying close attention to confirmation votes. I think those are often just because people think it looks senatorial.
Thank you. I think the thinking is that any act of bipartisanship enables certain dems to go back to constituents and say, “My voting record proves that I can look at all things with objectivity/I’m not *too* liberal.” But what I hear in your articulate piece (correct me if I’m wrong) is the message that the undeniable presence of fascism overrides that dynamic. We’re past that. Fascism is FASCISM. You’re either going along with it or not. Dems need to stop going along and be clearly against it at every turn. And to that end, dems need to keep calling it what it is. Sometimes I feel like people can’t grok the horror of what’s happening either because they don’t have context from their own lived experience to out it into perspective or because they do and they don’t want to revisit it.
You are absolutely right. One cannot find common ground with a regime that is actively destroying our country, and those Democratic politicians who are trying to are hopelessly naive.
Has Chuck Schumer never hear of the holocaust?
I have read extensively on cognitive biases, but I just don’t get when someone like him, an openly practicing Jew, doesn’t just go ape-shit over what is happening.
How does he reconcile his actions on Friday night Shabbat?
Is he no different than the “Christian” politicians who never practice the Beatitudes?
Can you help me formulate a response to dems/independents who push against your insightful stance with the argument that some dems lean into bipartisanship as a way to stay in power given purple constituencies? The thinking is that such concessions are instrumental in getting re-elected and that having a seat for “the really important stuff” is worth, for example, voting for Rubio.
I don’t think people voted for Rubio in order to appeal to swing voters. I think it was a gesture of collegiality since he’d been in the senate.
It strains credulity to think that swing voters (who generally aren’t paying attention) are paying close attention to confirmation votes. I think those are often just because people think it looks senatorial.
Thank you. I think the thinking is that any act of bipartisanship enables certain dems to go back to constituents and say, “My voting record proves that I can look at all things with objectivity/I’m not *too* liberal.” But what I hear in your articulate piece (correct me if I’m wrong) is the message that the undeniable presence of fascism overrides that dynamic. We’re past that. Fascism is FASCISM. You’re either going along with it or not. Dems need to stop going along and be clearly against it at every turn. And to that end, dems need to keep calling it what it is. Sometimes I feel like people can’t grok the horror of what’s happening either because they don’t have context from their own lived experience to out it into perspective or because they do and they don’t want to revisit it.
I corrected a wee typo and now I see that Substack removes likes once an edit is made… but thank you for liking and thank you for the interaction.