For those complaining about any congressperson stalling an agenda or being unwilling to compromise, or for an entire party to not vote for a particular bill, you don’t understand the role of those people.
The people in the House or Senate are voted for by the people. The people control the government. If your bill is not supported by any person, that means (or it should mean) that they were elected by people that don’t support that particular bill. They’re not the ones stalling anything, they’re doing the correct thing by representing the people that voted for them.
During President Biden’s speech today, he mentioned talking to certain Republican legislators and they had spoken to him in confidence that they wanted to vote for his bills, but they would get primaried (or voted out.) Part of that is pretty good, the other not so good.
First the right thing: They said they wanted to vote for it, but they aren’t going to. This is great news. This means this legislator is doing what he/she was expected to do by the voters that voted them into office. Whether it’s their personal belief or not doesn’t matter, he’s doing what his constituents want. Bravo.
Of course, that leads right to the bad thing. If you don’t feel this way, then you may be misleading your constituents. If you ran for office as being pro-choice, and that’s one of the main reasons that got you elected, then immediately vote against pro-choice policies, then you’re just saying whatever you want to get elected. That tells me that you’re just going to say what you need to say to get voted again. That tells me you want to be a career politician and not really do what the government is supposed to do.
So, to close the loop on this rant, Senators Manchin and Sinema and the entire Republican caucus aren’t stalling anything. If they disagree with certain parts of a bill, that’s not on them. That means they represent a part of the country that disagrees with what the government is trying to pass. We’re a Democratic Republic, not a full-blown democracy. We aren’t mob rule. If half the country doesn’t want a particular law passed, then the government is supposed to work together to compromise and find a happy medium for everyone. These days it’s all about forcing bills through process with no compromise.
All this to say, Democrats and Republicans are opposite sides of the same coin. They both do this. Make huge promises for when they control everything, then screwing over the people for the corporations that are really running the country. But that’s a topic for another day.
Vote Libertarian next time for some real change.
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