(05-29-2025, 02:26 PM)Jag149 Wrote:

(05-29-2025, 01:56 PM)mikesez Wrote: The threat of them losing the next election doesn't change their behavior?

Also, what did your late wife's twin tell you about AOC?

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We already have the threat of them losing the next election. This is not a valid reason to change. If you do not believe it then just ask those that lost their seats last election....lol

Not for me to pass that information on to you. That is not really an ethical thing to do. You can use your crystal ball that tells you how people will behave in the future and decide for yourself.

For about 90% of them, the only way they lose the next election is if someone more extreme primaries them.  There is no pressure from the middle once they are in office.
For the other 10%, they are mainly riding the President's coattails. If they're the same party as the President, all they can do is hope the President is popular on election Day, if they are not, they just hope for the opposite. Either way, their fate depends on the President, and not on anything that they do.
The dynamics are very different for open seats, but we are talking about incumbents and how they think. It's much more determinative, and centrism and compromise play no role in their calculus. That's what we need to change. 

As for AOC, I know what she has proposed, I know what she sponsors, I know what she says in public, Even though she's not my representative, I don't agree with anything she has done or said, although I do find it interesting. I don't look down on bartenders.

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