Notice the difference:
ON THE ONE HAND: We hear progressives, including The Squad, who won't leverage their power to withhold their vote for Pelosi unless Pelosi lets Medicare for All go to the floor for a vote. They say it is "performative" since they don't believe it will suddenly pass--notwithstanding it would expose the disconnect between people outside Congress and who gets elected in Congress.
ON THE OTHER HAND: We hear right wingers doing the ultimate performative vote this week to try and overturn the election of Biden over Trump, knowing it will fail--and even knowing the base is delusional about the election results. So why are these right wingers doing this? To please their base, and build their movement power for later elections. They know how performative acts work. They know how performative acts, whether it is black college students defying Martin Luther King, Jr. and civil rights leadership, and deciding to walk into a diner in Greensboro, NC in 1960 and sitting down, or marching to protest Soviet treatment of Jews in Russia/Soviet Union, translates into political power. Unlike progressive leaders, and The Squad, the right wingers in Congress know their performative act builds their own national reputations among influencers and activists. And they will win elections off of this in places where the Dem brand is already toxic, and make inroads in states Biden won in 2020. This is so even though the right wingers are delusional about what they want to do, which is overturn a legitimate election that rejected their cult leader, Trump.
And yet, progressives won't do what the majority of Americans want, M4A, in a pandemic.
Jimmy Dore is correct, again and again. Yes, I disagree with the way Jimmy calls out Bernie and AOC, and highly disagree with his belief Trump's ties to Russia are a hoax. But, when someone is correct on something like this, as Jimmy is, then we don't throw out the idea because of how we feel about one guy, i.e. Jimmy Dore. If you can't see what Jimmy is saying because Jimmy is saying it, then read this article from Briahna Joy Gray in Current Affairs.
And #Forcethevote. Sign here. And call your Congresscritters tomorrow. Oh, and sign up at the Movement for a People's Party here.
