Fetterman, Flashing a Sharper Edge, Keeps Picking Fights With the Left
Fetterman, Flashing a Sharper Edge, Keeps Picking Fights With the Left
The first-term Pennsylvanian has battled with progressives on Israel, immigration and energy, adopting a more caustic political persona and alienating some supporters.
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What happened to Fettermen? Was it all a ploy?
Don't worry. He is our Susan Collins.
Despite all of his rhetoric, Mr. Fetterman so far has voted like a reliable Democratic foot soldier.
When everyone left of fascism is in a single party now, there’s bound to be some divisions in people’s actual beliefs within the D party. It’s unsurprising that some Democrats are going to be more moderate in some areas than others, this is what coalition government looks like, and is a healthy part of a working democracy.
It’d be better if we had ranked choice voting nationally, and could allow for smaller parties to win national seats. But short of that future, I don’t mind Fetterman voicing his thoughts and voting party line when it matters.
Dude is from a pretty purple constituency. Why are people surprised that he’s a mix of red and blue stances on things?
He campaigned as a leftist but once elected his voting and support streak has been consistently red. People feel misled because he completely misrepresented himself to his constituents
He voted with Biden 97.3% of the time in 2023.
Source from 538: https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/blob/master/congress-biden-score/biden_score_2023.xlsx
Biden is right wing…
This shit needs to stop. Anyone to the right of you is right wing, we get it. You don't allow dissent or disagreement in the left so everyone who isn't with you on every issue is the enemy right? You know what that sounds like right?
A lot of people who claim to be left on here, are doing everything possible to push people away from the left, and chasing off allies with this "no true leftist" bullshit.
Worldly Biden is on the right. That’s a fact. In American terms he is slightly left. IMO.
For real
This is only even close to true if you think 'worldly' is western Europe plus like 3 other countries. It doesn't matter what the rest of the world thinks counts as left and right wing. Biden is a left wing American Democrat, this is such a stupid argument.
It does matter. Categorizing left and right equally leads to a better understanding of who is leading in other countries in comparison. Which is growing more and more important as a world war looks possible. Trying to separate them is just cognitive dissonance. And yes. I consider them worldly as they generally seem to dictate the stance and spectrum of politics of the western world. Where our politics spawned from, relate to, and ally with. My apologies if that offends you.
The words "right" and "left" politically mean the same thing they did 200 years ago. Left means you view human rights as paramount over property rights, and "Right" means you view property rights as more important than human rights. This means the dividing line is pretty clear. Capitalism, as a system, depends on property rights being enforced at the expense of people (see, being allowed to own empty residential property while people are homeless), and is therefore the dividing line. Left of center is anti-private property and anti-capital, and right of center is pro-private property rights and pro capitalism.
He ran as a self proclaimed progressive only to land in the Senate and become a ghoulish genocide defender reminiscent of the ADL.
Not just that: people who campaigned for him were wary of the risk he might turn right once elected. So he went out early to really convince the leftist coalitions backing him he was legit and definitely not going to do exactly what he did.
He was always pro Israel. At no point did he act like he wasn't a Zionist, all his other policies he did claim were progressive
It’s easy to blame the stroke but I don’t know if it’s fair or accurate…
Never trust someone from York County.
He's a silver spoon baby who tricked the working class that he was one of them by wearing Crocs and hoodies. I was calling him out and getting downvoted as a result since he was sworn in.