Why is the Pro Act, whose passage is contingent on unlikely filibuster reform, considered a more "grown up," real wold, achievable goal than withholding COVID bill votes for the $15 min wage? Or FTV? We discuss on the latest @BadFaithPod https://twitter.com/briebriejoy/status/1385272505993154560

Because one has the entirety of organized American labor behind it and the other was an idea someone had on a podcast.

Yeah, that’s the problem, genius... someone on a podcast shouldn’t be coming up with these ideas, because they’re extremely simple and easy to figure out.

Pressuring politicians to force them to do what their supporters/constituents want is not really that complicated.

https://twitter.com/Left_Blacksmith/status/1385937077598965762

another post in conversation under that anti-FTV/anti-podcaster (!) guy's feed:

why is the symbolic vote on the PRO-act that does nothing and won't become law so superior to a symbolic vote on M4A that does nothing and won't become law?

Because unions are an important institution in the labor aristocrat wing of capitalism. Who else is going to send newsletters to worker telling them to vote for the Democratic candidate? The CFL-AIO are literally agents of CIA imperialism, these Liz Warren voting radlibs who are pushing this program are just maintaining their hegemony with this virtue signalling capitalist reform bullshit.

      • DetroitLolcat [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        While this is true and people should have room to grow, it's also concerning watching someone with a huge platform go from Warren Democrat to "AOC and the DSA are CIA plants controlled by the Democratic Party to undermine revolution" in less than a year. Because the end result is the same: Knight went from punching at AOC/DSA from the right to doing the same thing but saying "I'm a communist now so it's okay."

        Like, if your views are shifting that rapidly over such a short time period maybe it's best to admit your views are in flux, listen more than you speak, and admit you might not have all the answers right now rather than using your platform to attack fellow leftists as not being left enough.