Tony Stark
The biggest part of who decides an election is, as always, the voters. Somehow I’m getting comments where people aren’t the slightest bit concerned about why the voters decided to oust Bowman, as if voters had nothing to do with it at all. Very, uh, interesting.
“It’s rigged if the person I like lost, but not if the person I like won.” Quite a take.
Anyway, I know people in NY-16 and spend a lot of time there. A grassroots movement worked for quite some time to get different representation.
Tony Stark
AIPAC. Dark money. Centrists. Corporate interest. Billionaires. Everything is to blame but voters actually voting. In a district with a lot of voting Jews where the candidate denied rape happened, went out of his way to alienate his district, and said over the weekend that Jews segregate themselves, how this is surprising is unknown.
So many experts on this platform who know nothing about what goes on in reality at all.
KB Leecaster
@TonyStark
Bowman voted against Biden's signature Infrastructure and Jobs Act. He accomplished demonstrating to Democrats that he doesn't support Democratic policies.
That was reason enough for Democrats to choose to replace him with a Democrat.
Tony Stark
@GreenFire Recalling when Bernie lost in SC because of the Black vote going for Biden and Bernie’s campaign blaming “low information voters.”
They have a messaging problem and a lack of ability to win people over on policy. Bowman could have run on accomplishments, but the far ends never have any.
KB Leecaster
@TonyStark
Because it seems like people on the far ends of the political spectrum are incapable of self-reflection they'll most likely blame others for their loss at the polls.
Heck, I wouldn't be surprised if Jamaal Bowman and his supporters start spouting out Trump-like lies about election fraud, but of course most likely they'll just continue to blame it on you know who.
Chirp! is a social network. It runs on GNU social, version 2.0.1-beta0, available under the GNU Affero General Public License.
All Chirp! content and data are available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.