The answer, which no one wants to acknowledge, is that this race is between one really bad guy who will vote for good things and another normally bad guy who won't vote for good things. That's why they can't talk about Frownfelter's record. They're afraid of that obvious truth.
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Replying to @RVrijj @JohntheLib and
If you actually think that Coleman can be trusted to remain ideologically consistent you're a fucking rube He openly didn't give a shit about abortion just two years ago
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Replying to @arthur_affect @RVrijj and
He talks about the issues like a fucking child, he's alienated everyone else who actually works in politics in KS no matter how "progressive" they are He's burned all his bridges with the Dems, he's going to be a totally powerless legislator unless he goes GOP
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Replying to @arthur_affect @RVrijj and
Even if he did reliably always vote for the "leftmost" legislation that came up for a vote that's the LEAST important thing Just as in an election among the public, voting is the END of the process, not the beginning
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Replying to @arthur_affect @RVrijj and
The MOST important job of a legislator, the part that actually requires knowledge and work and the reason we don't just have a direct democracy, is CREATING legislation Deciding what exactly it is we're going to be voting on Aaron cannot do that
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Replying to @arthur_affect @RVrijj and
To do that you have to understand the issues, you have to be persuasive in discussing them, and you have to be able to get other people to like you and trust you Aaron fails horribly on all three
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Replying to @arthur_affect @RVrijj and
His incredible bullshit like his "Make college free by taxing pot!" plan shows a child-level understanding of the issues, he talks about it like an asshole and makes it sound worse than it is, and no one fucking wants to hear it from someone like him
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Replying to @arthur_affect @RVrijj and
The KS Dems are announcing they will not caucus with him -- as they should not -- which means he's going to be a totally impotent seat-warmer as a state rep Unless he goes GOP (there's some libertarian dude on his page right now trying to groom him)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @RVrijj and
It leaves a bad taste in my mouth to even be arguing this from a "political strategy" standpoint like the moral issue here just doesn't matter But the idea that supporting Coleman is good strategy is fucking absurd
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Replying to @arthur_affect @RVrijj and
It is, bluntly, pure identity politics No one is going to get Medicare 4 All by putting this piece of shit in the fucking state house (which has no power over federal issues like that) It's purely affective politics You identify with this kid, that's all
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Everyone who supports this kid is the kind of person who thinks of "Where you stand on Medicare 4 All" as this kind of magic moral baptism, like the way the world should work is having "good politics" erases everything else about who you are and whether people like or trust you
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