He really is the Fetterman of the House.

Yeah, he's shit but I mean, Texas. Not saying he gets a pass but, Texas.

I’m guessing it’s not about fascist ideology, and more about those AIPAC paid vacations they’ve already packed their luggage for. Doesn’t change that they are a piece of shit, only if they have corn or peanuts.

Okay - I just made myself gag.

I mean, don't vote for them...

But not voting for anyone else with a D by their name because of these asshats, is just going to let these asshats take over the party.

Most Americans don't get to vote in any election that has any of them on a ballot.

They do this to fracture the Dem party. Keep your adversaries in disarray.

I mean, mine's up there and in general most hate that but he's still far better than a Republican in his spot.

Hopefully next time we have a primary challenger worth voting for because his challenger voted for trump. Yeah....

So I'll put up with him for another two years because while his Israel bullshit sucks it's the better of the two options in almost any other issue on the table.

Easy, even the worst Democrat is still better than every Republican. Sure a little while ago 8 DNC out of 212 voted to condemn socialism, but do you know how many Republicans refused to condemn fascism in a November 2025 vote?

It's the House; all of them are up for re-election this year.

I hear you man and unfortunately 3rd parties will never be viable with these kinds of Democrats around who won't support ranked choice or another system of voting.

If you have a couple of thousand like minded individuals, I'd say do a coordinated priest vote with a specific message of your refusing to vote for people who can't stand up to the GOP even for your 1st amendment rights like those in the Dearborn Abandon movement did.

Otherwise you'd just have to decide if it's worth it to you to hold your nose and slow walk the decent into fascism or go acceleration and live with the consequences of a quicker decent while continuing to fight for better candidates via progressives in the primaries. No real good options otherwise.

In my unprofessional opinion, it is better to force their loss sooner rather than later because it’s going to happen anyways with those people. We shouldn’t be voting for them because they don’t vote on our side regardless.

The issue now of course is that the GOP is literally bat shit insane evil when previously they were just bat shit insane on the dl evil and it would’ve been a lot better to do it this way.

But still, It has to happen.

Yeah, ranked choice voting can help with this problem somewhat

Upset that my rep, Auchincloss is. I knew he would be.

Really I'm more upset that he won by 50 points.

She has been voting along AIPAC's lines for a while. Sadly she doesn't seem to have any serious challengers to unseat her. She is deffo a DINO.

Me too! Specifically clicked on this link looking for him

https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2026295

In case you're genuinely curious and not trolling, I'll explain. Parties in the US are not fixed around a particular ideology or set of stances, but have changed frequently throughout history and often take completely opposite positions from their past iterations. Many historians like to divide US political history into eras called party systems to indicate when parties are roughly cohesive and when they go through major changes, and during the civil war era we were in the Third Party System. During the third party system the Democratic party's base was made up primarily of white southerners (though there were northern supporters as well) and after the civil war they fought against Reconstruction in order to uphold white supremacy (the only issue that united Democratic voters in the north and south at the time).

Though there isn't consensus among historians yet, many consider us to be in the Seventh Party System now, so as you can imagine a lot has changed since then. I'll let you do your own reading on that topic.