friend of mine describes as treating our democracy over and over again like it can tolerate limitless abuse without breaking and act surprised when it s broken. there is an opportunity now at one of two alcohochallenges, on dealing with criticism including the moderate republicans. we keep talking about what democrats haven t been able to get done. what about the 14 current sitting republican senators who voted for the reauthorization of the voting rights act the last time? we have that drama in the senate to make voting accessible but we have a different sort of parallel challenge and you eluded to it in your commentary and that is how to make voting on the ground as you said in the trenches meaningful. right. i think one of the reasons why senators get to play these games around, you know, invoking
dealing with criticism including the moderate republicans. we keep talking about what democrats haven t been able to get done. what about the 14 current sitting republican senators who voted for the reauthorization of the voting rights act the last time? we have that drama in the senate to make voting accessible but we have a different sort of parallel challenge and you eluded to it in your commentary and that is how to make voting on the ground as you said in the trenches meaningful. right. i think one of the reasons why senators get to play these games around, you know, invoking the filibuster when they want to and then ignoring it when they don t want to like just the other week when they raised the debt ceiling is because they don t feel accountable to people on the ground and that s why we got to be involved in motivating everybody to hold them accountable. glad you said that about the trenches because it really took me awhile to post.