‘In the End We Will All Pay for the Cowardice of the Liberal Class’

Last week, Jimmy Dore suggested—make that urged—his viewers, and really all true progressives, to contact the supposedly true progressive members of the Democratic-majority United States House of Representatives. This includes, of course, New York’s Alexandria Ocasio–Cortez and Minnesota’s Ilhan Omar. 

With the post-2020 Democrats heading into the next Congress with 222 seats—it takes 218 for majority—the supposedly true progressives can use their numbers to prevent California’s Nancy Pelosi from winning re-election as speaker if she does not, at the very least, bring to the floor of the U.S. House a vote on Medicare for All.

I support this move. 

I support it because it is, as Dore describes, leverage. 

I support it because these so-called true progressives should be using their leverage if Pelosi wants to continue as speaker. 

I support it because these supposedly true progressives have gone on the record saying they support and want Medicare for All. 

I support this move because these so-called true progressives should be revealing themselves for just how serious they are when they said they support and want Medicare for All.

I am ready for these so-called true progressives in the U.S. House to use their leverage.

If they don’t use their leverage, they can be included among the cowards in the “Liberal Class” as described by Chris Hedges in his piece that is this week’s blog topic. (Its link: In the End We Will All Pay for the Cowardice of the Liberal Class.)