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In reply to the discussion: Beware of People Pretending to Be on Our Side [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Like it or not, the spoiler senators are the democratic process working as it is currently designed to. Senators are intended to be very powerful and able to represent their own states without control by others. I hate that a perfect storm means these currently have the voting power they do, and I certainly don't think their choices are optimal for the nation. BUT, the voters of WV and AZ chose those two to represent them in the senate and that's that. Both have the power to say no and cannot be forced. By anyone. This is democracy. And let's repeat: They cannot be forced.
The warning, as I see it, is about those who masquerade as progressive and concerned about poverty, climate change, healthcare, all the usual, but are actually working to defeat it all -- some knowingly as professional enemy agents both foreign and domestic, but some unknowningly. Not all the anti-Democratic Party radicals and well meaning but very mislead followers of the former are on the right.
Tear it down, burn it up, and take it over. Someone described that as the grand strategy of RW Steve Bannon types, and so true.
Btw, how many social media posters have you seen advocate blackmailing or committing some other illegal/illicit ("Whatever it takes!" ) action to force Manchin to change his vote? This is anti-democracy, and those protecting our government of, by and for the people for all of us really, really couldn't allow it.
Hope this helps.