Comments by "" (@TheHuxleyAgnostic) on "Is There A New Pink Tide In South America" video.

"Vote blue" works both ways, dumb dumb. It's how progressives tend to win general elections, because those who voted against them in the primaries turn around and vote for them in the general. If you simply split off all the progressive voters to a third party, they'd lose and Republicans would win almost everywhere.
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@Unfamous_Buddha The Tea Party was backed by the Koch brothers, and other billionaire donors. Which billionaire donors want to help turn corporate Dems into progressives?
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@Unfamous_Buddha Rofl. It does matter, because it wasn't grass roots, it had massive corporate donors pushing the candidates further to the right, and that direction is pretty much the direction Republicans naturally want to go anyway. Corporate Dems donors are not pushing them to move to the left, and corporate Dems don't naturally want to move further left. The only thing that made it hard for old school Republicans to ignore the tea party types, is that they were themselves unwilling to move bills a bit left and work with democrats. That's the opposite of Biden's, or Manchin's, "bipartisan" crap. They are willing to push bills right, to pick up Republican votes, and pass things without needing squad votes. You're spewing a bullshit false equivalence.
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@Unfamous_Buddha Where am I losing you? Tea party pressure also can from giant corporate donors, pushing the party further right. Are corporate Dems' corporate donors pressuring them to be more progressive? No. I'm not talking about amounts. I'm talking about what their donors are pressuring them to do. The Tea Party had become the majority of the Republican caucus by the time they had another party speaker vote. It wasn't some tiny minority taking over the party. And, again, if old school Republicans really wanted to get around the tea partiers, all they had to do was work with democrats to pass bills without needing tea party votes. I get it. You morons don't actually care that Democrats are in danger of losing the house in 2022. You'd prefer to see progressives in a minority party, and see Republicans become the majority. Learn some basic math. It is impossible to pass a bill without Manchin, because there are zero extra votes to the left of the party, if you lose his vote. On the other end, there is the entire Republican party to try and get extra votes from, if you lose a progressive vote. It is possible to pass bills without the squad by moving a bill to the right and picking up Republican votes. The squad refusing to sign bills could actually push legislation to the right. Unlike the old school Republicans, corporate Dems are willing to work with Republicans, as the likes of Manchin keeps saying. The $15 got a vote. It passed the house (M4A didn't have a chance in hell) and also got a senate vote. Wasn't just getting a vote on an important progressive policy supposed to be a big deal? Wasn't getting a list of no voters on an important progressive policy supposed to be a big deal? Apparently not. Dore knobs are pathetic useless hypocrites and have proved that ftv was a sham. Instead of going after the no voters, they just keep bitching about those who voted for it. Pelosi introduced the M4A bill last session. It died in committees, where 90% of bills die. She has already reintroduced the bill this session. It's sitting in committees. Instead of slandering and bitching about people who have done more for M4A in a few years than Dore has in his entire lifetime, why not try pressuring committee members to take up the bill?
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