General Discussion

Don’t pretend you’re not switching now yourself. Either this statement has a potential impact or it’s superfluous. I believe it’s a voice we need to hear. If we’re so worried about consistency, are you much chagrined by the Democratic leadership wasting their time when they don’t have the votes to do anything meaningful? That’s the “silly” talk I hear from those on the other side of this issue. Is being critical of Democratic leadership, regardless of their actions, the main issue here? Or is the real target those within the party that you see as undermining the institution or should I say progressives? The latter is part of what I see as an important debate to keep alive, but it seems here the target is the people speaking out rather than their ideas.
We shouldn’t just rubber stamp the actions of our leadership. I’m sure our representative democracy was designed to have a feedback loop where citizens continue to voice their concerns after elections happen. Some of these citizens will think their leadership has gone too far, some not enough, and some think they’ve done just fine, but what’s important is that all of our voices are heard. Bring heard, there can be some debate amongst the ourselves and our representatives who the. can respond following the dictates of their conscience, experience, and minds. We rely on their expert and they rely on us speaking our minds or how can they represent? We don’t have to be right to be an important part of providing solutions I know in the post internet world where we can all do our own research it’s easy to presume we’ve become experts, but in general expertise comes not just from digestion of accepted facts or opinions of designated experts, but by engaging our interpretation of those propositions and ideas with the world or at least other experts and novices.