General Discussion

...in order to call their bluff for everyone to see.

Of course they have. it's fucking standard political opposition, but the rub is a Dem electorate accustomed by troll after troll encouraging them to attack their own party instead.

It's something to behold, and you can count me out.

It's a binary political system with a dangerous party in control on one side and our Dems we managed to elect through all of the trolling on the other.

There isn't any Internet Outrage party that's going to make that equation any different. We can either bend the arc toward Democrats, or we can do this stupid outrage thing over politics that we have zero actual responsibility for managing as if our legislators were a meme or a monolith for internet gripers to take pot shots at instead of take the time to EVER support them.

Does anyone remember this republican party EVER trashing their party leaders for ANY political initiative? In the meantime, here we are claiming proposals are 'caves' as if the legislature was meant to be just some protest instead of governance.

As MOW organized Bayard Rustin wrote in his book, 'Strategies for Freedom,' activists often substitute and mistake volume and militancy for progress.

For a political movement to succeed, he wrote, it must have a legislative goal at the head of its advocacy to transform agitation into action.

Maybe turn down the volume against our own leaders charting a path forward, and point us to a legislative solution.