• baronvonj@piefed.social
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    15 hours ago

    The primaries are where we push the internal reform. The pitifully low primary turnout is what allows unpopular incumbents to coast on autopilot to the right for the donor money.

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      15 hours ago

      Yeah, tell me how that fixes someone like John Fetterman? What do you do when someone turns out to be a horrible asshole? They get to continue to fuck you over for the rest of their term? Or what about someone like Joe Manchin or Krysten Sinema? What are you doing in entire state keeps voting the same asshole in to office?

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        8 hours ago

        I don’t mind Fetterman, by my account he was a slightly left Democrat who had a stroke and the brain damage made him conservative. The value we get from KNOWING brain damage causes conservatism is worth one traitor.

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        15 hours ago

        At the end of their term, the voters go vote for someone else in the primaries, then Fetterman has to try and run as an independent or convince some other party to nominate him. During the term, it depends on the individual state if they have a procedure for the voters to recall an elected official or not (looks like Pennsylvania does not).