• Hegar@fedia.io
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    6 hours ago

    I agree completely, except I don’t think ‘bought off’ is the best way to characterize the rich consistently acting in their own interests. Democratic party leadership doesn’t need a bribe or inducement to attack working people and the left, it’s the job they signed up for.

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      6 hours ago

      I agree completely, except I don’t think ‘bought off’ is the best way to characterize the rich consistently acting in their own interests

      A lot of politicians aren’t “rich” when first elected especially for the House the only way to get rich is shady shit like campaign corruption or insider trading.

      The party leadership are defending themselves because like we were just shown, they won’t let anyone into the VIP area if they’re not dirty.

      They know Connolly won’t do the job, because he’s corrupt too.

      You can’t fight corruption from the bottom up, that’s what Biden just tried to do with 1/6, they never got close to anyone who caused it.

      For corruption you got to work top down. That’s what AOC would have done, and that would have been going after Pelosi because every Republican would vote with AOC to do that.