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> The fact that this won't sail through congress in a week (it'll never even come up for a vote in the senate) really illustrates how out of touch legislators a
by panda-giddiness 6y ago
> The fact that this won't sail through congress in a week (it'll never even come up for a vote in the senate) really illustrates how out of touch legislators are with voters.
There is a single person blocking this vote. I'd say it's rather unfair to characterize legislators in general as being out of touch when 228 members of Congress voted in favor of the bill. If fact, if you include both chambers of Congress, more legislators likely support this bill than don't.
If you want to blame more than one person, blame the Senators that elected the current Senate majority leader.
- mullingitover 6y ago> I'd say it's rather unfair to characterize legislators in general as being out of touch when 228 members of Congress voted in favor of the bill. I thought it went without saying which specific party in the legislative branch is out of touch with the voters, but yes, this is a specific party who is on the wrong side of history, as usual. Passing this bill in the house now, when the control of the Senate hangs on an upcoming election, was a brilliant move.
- prossercj 6y ago> this is a specific party who is on the wrong side of history, as usual Why do you believe that history takes sides?
- weedahol 6y agoIt's not so much that history is a living force that has ideas of its own irrespective of people; but that history is going to be written by people into books and the majority of people living today are going to impose their interpretation of the now into the eventual "then" that kids 20 years from now are going to be forced to read.