It's so funny how people will be like "Tlaib sucks, she should be primaried, one of the worst members of Congress ever, we don't want her" but then criticize her for not falling in line.
If she had given Biden an endorsement, all the same characters would say "well, whatever, we don't need her but this is fine"--you don't care, you just want her to betray her principles.
I don’t give a f—k about her “principles,” and I find it bizarre that you apparently do. Politics isn’t about being the most pure or woke and taking a stand against the man. It’s about compromising and working as a team to accomplish concrete policy goals.
This is my single biggest issue with many “progressives.” Not only do I think that in many cases their actual principles and policy ideas are misguided and extreme, but I find them to be pretentious grandstanders who aren’t actually interested in getting anything done, just acting like they are holier than thou. Have the same problem with the Freedom Caucus types on the right like Thomas Massie by the way.
Politics isn’t a game and it isn’t a competition over who’s the most “authentic.” Anyone who is over the age of like 14 should understand this. Where others see these types of politicians as heroic for being obnoxious obstructionists, I see them as immature and unwilling to get over themselves. I also see them as supremely arrogant for assuming their principles are naturally superior to everyone else’s, and that they can just waltz right in to Congress and demand that much more accomplished people overhaul the system and the party to accommodate them.
To AOC’s credit, she seems to have gotten much better about this already. Not so much for Tlaib and Omar. And as for Bernie... dude has been like this his whole career. There is a reason I don’t mind AOC or Warren or Pressley as much as those other three, despite minute policy differences between them and despite the fact that all are significantly to my left. They are much more willing to work with others and thus are much better politicians, because again that’s kind of what politics is all about. If you just wanna soapbox, start a blog instead.
