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Originally Posted by Jack
Ong, you seem to forget that as an elected representative you should vote in accordance to those who put yout here.
Didn't they put him there BECAUSE he's a Dem who doesn't toe the party line?
No one knows what the fuck your conscience says while they are voting to put you in that position.
So? The voter is putting their trust in the moral integrity of such a person.
They do know what you campaigned on, however, and THAT is the sole reason they voted for you.
So why did they re-elect him twice?
There is a large contingent of people who have no time to actually follow politics and see track records of the politicians, so they have no idea how they what a politician stands for other than who's party they are on and what the general position of that party is on the issues that matter to them.
So what you're saying here is that people are too politically ignorant, so we need to dumb politics down to the point where one person represents the blanket views of an entire party. Fuck that.
Politicians should be, I know this is a pipe dream but bear with me, they should be intelligent people of high moral integrity. The idea is that they are entrusted by the people to make decisions, and it is their conscience that got them into a place of trusted office.
As a politician you are a public servant
Yes, and it is your duty to do what you believe is the right thing to do for the people, not what your party tells you is the right thing to do, and not what you think politically ignorant people want you to do.
It sucks, and it's certainly idiotic, but that is what they have. One party that is vastly center-right and another that is completely off the deep end
And this only represents the extremes, when actually most people fall somewhere in between. So why shouldn't politicians fall somewhere in between? That's a more accurate representation of the electorate.
This a the real victory of the Republican party. If you can pass anything you want knowing you can count on manchin's vote to break any ties, you go ahead and shove your turtle dick (mcconnel) down the opponents throats.
If Dem voters in W Virginia have a problem with this, the solution is very simple. He's been re-elected twice. So who are you, or anyone, to tell him how he should vote? He has the mandate to do as he pleases.
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