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"I'm not a progressive," says Sen. John Fetterman, elected while often saying he was a progressive

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"I'm not a progressive," says Sen. John Fetterman, elected while often saying he was a progressive | Boing Boing

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Help us take this progressive momentum to the ballot box," he once wrote. While pitching a profile in The Atlantic, he posted that "progressive rhetoric is great but progressive results are 💯". In one tweet he described himself as a "progressive champion." "My dude, I'm a progressive democrat," he admonished Jeb Bush. "Progressive. Simple. Sacred," he said. "Progressive values have been the heart of my campaign." He promised to be "a solid progressive backstop for PA" and talked of his "progressive vision" for the state. In another: "we have started a progressive movement here in Pennsylvania. It's not going away."
That was before being elected.
And now:
Alas, it is going away. Today Fetterman declared "I'm not a progressive" in an interview with NBC News, explaining why he is turning right on immigration, Israel, and other matters in the news.
He did have a massive stroke tho, and it's not unheard of for those to drastically change a person's personality.
But regardless of if he was lying to get elected, or did have a personality change due to the stroke...
His recent statements on various policies make it clear he's not a progressive, and we should stop calling him one.
- He supports Isreal. Any and all good will this asshole has earned is dead. Vote him out.
  
  Vote him out in favour of who? Is there some third party option that is viable?
- You know what else changes a Person of Politics’ ideas? The seeming virus of the suddenly vulnerable status quo. There’s a weird, long history of “progressive” and “good” politicians suddenly and seemingly inexplicably turning from ex-Green Party member/socially conscious senators to right wing voters on the senate floor when democrats are finally gonna live up to what they say!
  It’s soooo weird and totally unrelated that there’s always ONE (or two…or however many are necessary for the current makeup of the senate) suddenly going back on what they said they believed in.
  So weird. Oh well. I guess it’s just a crazy coincidence!
For whatever reason, he does not want to be defined by that word. I have no problem with that. He is himself, and not a stereotype of whatever "a progressive" is to you.
Still proud to have him representing me!
- He is a staunch supporter of Israel's genocide.
  
  That whole situation is such a mess I can give people a pass, they are both doing horrible things to each other and have for so long the waters are too muddy to claim any sort of moral high ground.
  As long as there is no support for Netanyahu and his terrorist government, or Hamas and their terrorist government then we are good in my books.
- "No one passes the purity test. That's why we invented it: so no single person or group of people could ever galvanize a movement. As long as they needed a perfect leader, we were free to do what we wanted.
  A venal sin disassembled their cause; meanwhile, we were literally robbing them blind and working their families to death without a care in the world.
  Sin never once factored into our allegiances."
  
  What's that from?
He straight up lied to peoples' faces who campaigned for him that were worried about this exact fucking thing happening.
Makes it so much more frustrating.
- First time?
More proof that power corrupts.
Hey Dems, now you know how it feels to get Toomey'ed.
Not bad, bucko.

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