Replies to post #431928 on Tornado Alley (PROG)

[blackhawks]

That's a keeper

The idea that somehow both parties are toxic is the falsest of false equivalencies. Sinema has the kind of bothsidesing brain worms that are rarely seen outside of the worst hot takes of the pundit class. The Republican Party has been so profoundly anti-legislation and pro-culture wars they declined to even have a party platform in the 2020 election, and spent the midterms fear mongering about crime, demonstrating fealty to Trump, and obsessing over Hunter Biden’s laptop. (Get ready for two more years of the latter under a GOP House majority!) Yeah, the two parties are not remotely the same, and partisanship isn’t the primary problem with American politics: Republican extremism is.

[Zorax]

If anything, Sinema’s move is proof that the Democratic base will no longer tolerate senators who tweet about the importance of raising the federal minimum wage and then, as Ilhan Omar tweeted at the time, “gleefully” vote against it. There is no place in today’s Democratic Party for fake Democrats who stand in the way of progressive legislation in the hopes of maintaining tax cuts for the rich.

Nope, no room at the inn. Why are the pundits coming out with this when I and others have been saying it for as long as she has been elected? She was blowing munchkin her first week on the job.
She is/was the mtg of the dems.