So much for #ForceTheVote. It would appear that #RFK, Jr. is even dumber than anticipated. This is a sobering take on his pathetic campaign. https://youtu.be/kSAPzFkAtfA

Force the vote.
The "old guard" Dems need to stop aside this time. They do well in controlling the far left of their caucus but their insistence on playing nice with Republicans is a big problem sometimes.
This is something that needs to be put out there, period. The American voters need to know if Republicans support an indicated, admitted liar and confessed thief to serve in Congress.
If that means Republicans use it later so be it. #Santos #truth #ForceTheVote
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/17/house-dems-mccarthy-santos-00097426

RT @CaseStudyQB@twitter.com

1/6/2023 - @aoc@twitter.com discussing the strategy of #ForceTheVote and organizing the grassroots

Full - https://www.instagram.com/p/CnF22Q7ICvx/?hl=en
(Shoutout to @SabbySabs2@twitter.com YT and @briebriejoy@twitter.com @getcallin@twitter.com for seeing clip there first)

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/CaseStudyQB/status/1613854747802337282

RT @Cudney4MA@twitter.com

I'm a supporter of #ForceTheVote 2020. A lot of people think it's immature or naïve or shortsighted. A lot of people don't have the intellectual humility to give the *set* of ideas involved a fair shake. And an opportunity like it may come around again. Who knows? Maybe soon. 8/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Cudney4MA/status/1612663263145123841

I'm a supporter of #ForceTheVote 2020. A lot of people think it's immature or naïve or shortsighted. A lot of people don't have the intellectual humility to give the *set* of ideas involved a fair shake. And an opportunity like it may come around again. Who knows? Maybe soon. 8/

Since #ForceTheVote is being re-litigated again, here’s an article by Ben Burgis in @thenation that I found helpful in understanding its strategic feasibility in the context of the slim dem majority in 2020 as leverage for a Medicare for all house vote. https://jacobin.com/2020/12/jimmy-dore-aoc-medicare-for-all-pelosi-house-floor-vote-speaker

#BenBurgis #JimmyDore #FTV #Politics #BriahnaJoyGray

RT @Cudney4MA@twitter.com

As the Left in the US, or whatever exists of it, we need to build on our successes and learn from our losses. A #ForceTheVote moment may come for prospective Speaker Hakeem Jeffries in 2024, 2026, etc. Now is as good a time as any to start getting ready.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Cudney4MA/status/1612117926957424640

RT @Cudney4MA@twitter.com

I’m deeply disappointed when folks infantilize or straw-man @briebriejoy@twitter.com’s defense of the #ForceTheVote idea. It seems to run directly contrary to the leftist notion of *solidarity*. It’s possible to disagree with the idea without burning so many bridges. We’re better than that.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Cudney4MA/status/1612117805091930119

RT @Cudney4MA@twitter.com

#ForceTheVote, as some have rightly pointed out, is actually a modern take on an ancient strategy called “using leverage when you have it”. Opponents of this modern take usually center the #MedicareForAll vote, which was going to fail. But as with most movements, the idea grew.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Cudney4MA/status/1612117665178390528

RT @Cudney4MA@twitter.com

#ForceTheVote 2020 was a direct action-adjacent idea: use political power to provoke the attention of mainstream media and the masses who overwhelmingly support progressive policy, and no, not just #MedicareForAll. It was to demonstrate how underrepresented we are in general.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Cudney4MA/status/1612117507896377344

RT @Cudney4MA@twitter.com

Folks who poo-poo & dismiss the #ForceTheVote strategy are operating from the belief that its supporters don’t understand organizing & movement building. But they don’t present an alternate strategy either, other than elect more progressives, which is a 30+-year strategy at best.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Cudney4MA/status/1612117189108301824

RT @Cudney4MA@twitter.com

My problem with the #ForceTheVote discourse on the left is that the disagreement appears to be over what it takes to create a fruitful movement today when we actually *don’t know*. My belief is that we should take an all-of-the-above approach and then focus on what gets traction.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Cudney4MA/status/1612117081524166662

RT @Cudney4MA@twitter.com

As the Left in the US, or whatever exists of it, we need to build on our successes and learn from our losses. A #ForceTheVote moment may come for prospective Speaker Hakeem Jeffries in 2024, 2026, etc. Now is as good a time as any to start getting ready.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Cudney4MA/status/1612117926957424640

RT @Cudney4MA@twitter.com

I’m deeply disappointed when folks infantilize or straw-man @briebriejoy@twitter.com’s defense of the #ForceTheVote idea. It seems to run directly contrary to the leftist notion of *solidarity*. It’s possible to disagree with the idea without burning so many bridges. We’re better than that.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Cudney4MA/status/1612117805091930119

RT @Cudney4MA@twitter.com

#ForceTheVote, as some have rightly pointed out, is actually a modern take on an ancient strategy called “using leverage when you have it”. Opponents of this modern take usually center the #MedicareForAll vote, which was going to fail. But as with most movements, the idea grew.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Cudney4MA/status/1612117665178390528

RT @Cudney4MA@twitter.com

#ForceTheVote 2020 was a direct action-adjacent idea: use political power to provoke the attention of mainstream media and the masses who overwhelmingly support progressive policy, and no, not just #MedicareForAll. It was to demonstrate how underrepresented we are in general.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Cudney4MA/status/1612117507896377344

RT @Cudney4MA@twitter.com

Folks who poo-poo & dismiss the #ForceTheVote strategy are operating from the belief that its supporters don’t understand organizing & movement building. But they don’t present an alternate strategy either, other than elect more progressives, which is a 30+-year strategy at best.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Cudney4MA/status/1612117189108301824

RT @Cudney4MA@twitter.com

My problem with the #ForceTheVote discourse on the left is that the disagreement appears to be over what it takes to create a fruitful movement today when we actually *don’t know*. My belief is that we should take an all-of-the-above approach and then focus on what gets traction.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Cudney4MA/status/1612117081524166662

As the Left in the US, or whatever exists of it, we need to build on our successes and learn from our losses. A #ForceTheVote moment may come for prospective Speaker Hakeem Jeffries in 2024, 2026, etc. Now is as good a time as any to start getting ready.

I’m deeply disappointed when folks infantilize or straw-man @briebriejoy@twitter.com’s defense of the #ForceTheVote idea. It seems to run directly contrary to the leftist notion of *solidarity*. It’s possible to disagree with the idea without burning so many bridges. We’re better than that.