But couldn’t every Dem in the house just vote for it knowing it would die in the Senate and even if it made it through there that it would be veto’d by Joe? Their donors surely understand hiding your true colors to retain power
Not trying to go after you here, but these are thoughts I’ve had about this issue
If the dems pass it by faking then good for us it’s still passed, if after that they fail to take back the senate that’s political ammunition for us, if Joe vetoes the bill that also political ammunition for us, on all potential angles the vote benefits us, how much it benefits is up to debate but there still a range of benefits which is why it’s worth doing
Ultimately it seems like framing this all within electoral politics is rather pointless. It’s ammunition for what? How is it actually going to change anything? By the time there are primaries this is a at best a distant blip in the memory of the electorate, and if you’re organizing to radicalize people there are plenty of other issues much more impactful to speak about.
Sure it could do something, but the chances of that are incredibly low, to the point it doesn’t feel worth the effort involved in getting it to happen.
If we want to talk electoral politics then the controversy should rest on Pelosi’s Speaker of the House role and not that she’ll get voted for if she lets a m4a vote fail in the house “so we can know who is bad”
The need for healthcare is never a “distant blip in the memory of the electorate” especially after covid and actually getting neolibs to vote against the bill without equivocating is useful for both radicalization and local and state races
It doesn’t matter whether WE know which neolib is a fake or not on healthcare, the point is to get them to become open about it so that we can get hit them from the left and frankly it also doesn’t matter whether the chances are low, you do it anyway, there is nothing else of worth going on
