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Congress Moving Forward On Unconstitutional Take It Down Act
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Hey yeah can anyone fucking explain to me why AOC and Rashida Tlaib voted yes on this dogshit?
The worst bills in Congress are usually overwhelmingly supported by both parties.
The thing is, AOC herself spoke out against this bill according to this article. And I really, really want her to explain this one, as much as I do not expect that she will.
I don't know how in the world I'm expected to have any faith whatsoever in our governance at any level when even our ostensibly most progressive voices aren't willing to block blatant garbage like this.
i lost my faith in our governance while deployed in iraq. nothing i've seen since has done anything to restore it. dunno how, but something has to change
I agree. My problem now is that people like Tlaib were who I looked to for how things could change, and yet here they are enabling worse instead of fighting for better. I can't square that circle, and it means I'm losing one of the last bastions of hope I had for a better world.
I'm confident leadership whipped the votes hard on this one, probably as a futile show of unity. That's where the blame lies.
It would indeed be nice to see a few democrats resisting attacks on the constitution and such but in the house a small number of voices cannot block legislation like in the senate.
I would also like to hear an explanation from AOC just to understand the politics of not acting as the singular democratic "no" vote here. But I'm not going to hold her to task given the obvious failure of leadership.
Because they've always been complicit. They talk a big game when then have no power to change things, but when they have leverage, they throw it all away.