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points by zzzeek 1 day ago | 0 comments

> both cool with selling our data.

I guess you can pretend Liz Warren, Ron Wyden, Patty Murray, dozens of house reps and thousands of Democratic legisltators in statehouses and towns around the country don't exist and just vote for the "party that lowered my taxes" again , right?

[–] jnovek 1 day ago

I’m not saying that there aren’t people who care in our government, it’s just that the political machines themselves — the political parties — are beholden to big corporate donors until such time that Citizen’s United is struck down.

[–] dmoose 1 day ago

You aren't wrong, but that doesn't mean that ranking candidates and then choosing the one that is more aligned with your ideas isn't a valid strategy. This system is deeply broken but pointing that out and then putting a period on the end helps ensure it stays that way.

[–] DANmode 1 day ago

You have to string more than 1 of them together to get any results besides “they voted for it and it still lost”.

[–] techteach00 1 day ago

Liz Warren is a fascist who would use every police state tactic you hate on her opposition.

[–] cucumber3732842 1 day ago

Warren? Come on. She is a TEXTBOOK example of someone who was a real person who arguably had morals who sold her soul to the party for a fancy title. Obama should have made her head of the CFPB since that was her pet project and career specialty. But no, everything "worked out better" for the machine if she just became an unremarkable senator.

[–] zzzeek 1 day ago

dont look at soundbites, look at legislation proposed. that's how Senators actually do their work

[–] cowlevel 1 day ago

Except for the part where they often propose legislation they know won't pass and then don't propose it later when it will pass.

Sometimes they miscalculate. Mitch McConnell once had to filibuster his own bill because he didn't mean for it to pass.