embarrassing, pennsylvania democrats elected a dead man. they knew they were doing it. they did it anyway. this would seem to defeat the idea of representative democracy, which is that you vote for people so that they can represent you. but party leaders in pennsylvania were not embarrassed. they were proud, quote: well we are incredibly saddened by the loss of representative tony deluca they said in a statement. we are proud to see the voters show their confidence in him and his commitment to democratic values by reelecting posthumously. in other words, electing a guy who can t possibly represent you is not an offense against democracy, it s the essence of democracy. now, it s not a typo. they put that in a press release and actually makes kind of sense when you remember it was also in the state of pennsylvania that democratic party leaders backed a senate candidate called john fetterman long after he had suffered a massive stroke and could not longer talk or communicate cle
clock psychiatric care deciding how to prevent train derailments. there are some questions here. the most obvious one is a logistical question how is john fetterman doing this if is he in the psych ward and we don t know because no one will say. fetterman s chief of staff, a man called adam gentleson is blocking anyone who dares to ask that question on social media, on twitter, for example. stephen miller of the last white house asked gentleson this adam who is cosigning and introducing legislation from senator fetterman s office while he himself is currently hospitalized and under current medical observation? oh, no answer? no answer? gentleson just blocked stephen miller in response. so, the problem with this is not john fetterman himself. once again, it s impossible not to feel sad for john fetterman or anyone else who suffers from mental illness. a lot of us are eccentric many of russ eccentric and a tolerant and compassionate society to do