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
Outside of electoral politics there are plenty of organisations that are worth your time more than this and within electoral politics focusing on how bad pelosi is and how she shouldn’t be speaker is also more worthwhile because at least there’s a chance she gets pushed aside
Outside of electoral politics there are plenty of organisations
Not where I live, so no, this is the only political engagement “worth” my time
and within electoral politics focusing on how bad pelosi is and how she shouldn’t be speaker is also more worthwhile because at least there’s a chance she gets pushed aside
There is zero chance Pelosi gets pushed aside in the current moment, but there is a CHANCE to force a vote on M4A, don’t put the cart before the horse
