According to Newsweek and other sources, 75 democrats in the House of Representatives voted for a resolution that explicitly supports ICE and local law enforcement working in coordination with them. This was coupled with a declaration condemning the attack in Boulder and antisemitism.
Here’s the thing, stop supporting fascism. Stop swallowing the poison pills like this so you can avoid looking antisemitic. No one on the right will care; they will call you anything anyway. Stop holding filibusters and then voting for a convicted felon to be ambassador of France (Booker). Stop voting to censure your own because he called out a lie. Stop kissing the ring or ass of Dear Leader to “reach across the aisle” (Whitmer and Fetterman).
I have gotten exhausted from the whining about there being unreasonable “purity tests” to decide who should be in the party. If you can’t stand for anything, you stand for nothing. Everything is a negotiation, a compromise. Nothing is sacrosanct, and it all can be mitigated. If we continue to fight from the middle, we will lose. “But, all the representatives in purple districts could lose votes!” Yes, let’s lose the Republic because we are too concerned about possible reelection outcomes in a year and a half.
There is a reason even people within the party, for years, have labeled the democrats as spineless. We don’t need to agree on everything, but the exception should be consistently fighting against fascism, fascist ideology, fascist appointments and laws. This resolution supporting ICE is horrible optics, and optics matter. All the super low-information voters out there that were confused about the difference between Harris and Trump, they aren’t digging into policies or looking beyond headlines. For them it’s theater, another TikTok video to sway their opinion. Sad but true, and a resolution may not be a law but it tells everyone you will fold if pushed. I don’t have to have an opinion about David Hogg to agree that every waffling democrat should be primaried on the left if they can’t hold the line. The two benefits would be either we would get a candidate with more resolve, or the incumbent may get forced to solidify their stance and start defending freedom, consistently. Start worrying about saving the country first, the party second.
I would like to have an opportunity to vote for a democrat in 2028. If our representatives don’t start holding the line, the next elections may not matter. The people in California are holding the line. They should too.
