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> vote democrat in the next election Why would voting for someone who voted for SOPA help stop it? Harry Reid, D-NV, senate majority leader, is pushing SOPA a
by anamax 15y ago
> vote democrat in the next election
Why would voting for someone who voted for SOPA help stop it?
Harry Reid, D-NV, senate majority leader, is pushing SOPA as a jobs bill so claiming that it's a republican idea is silly.
http://maplight.org/us-congress/bill/112-hr-3261/1019110/total-contributions.table http://maplight.org/us-congress/bill/112-hr-3261/1019110/tot... shows that police and firefighter unions are supporting SOPA, as are the teamsters, the electrical workers union, as well as the movie-related groups that you'd expect.
- awj 15y agoI think he more meant "vote for that congressman's strongest opponent." The party doesn't particularly matter so much as showing that his handling of this specific situation caused someone to support his biggest rival.
- SomeCallMeTim 15y agoIt's well known that Harry Reid is bought-and-paid-for by MPAA/RIAA, just like Dianne Feinstein in California (who most of my liberal friends loved, but who I couldn't stand for her MAFIAA connections). Politics is no fun. It's not like if I voted for the Republican opposing her that we'd get a better deal for ANYTHING that I cared about. We need a third party with reasonable political power, and/or a proportional-governance system where you tally the votes and give each party its proportional share of representatives. The current system is broken.