While Eva Burch spoke on the Senate floor about her planned abortion, almost all of her GOP colleagues found something else to do

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    9 months ago

    Because it’s what their constituents want them to do. The voters aren’t holding them to a higher standard and will re-elect.

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      9 months ago

      Their constituents are completely unaware because they’re uneducated and struggling with keeping their homes and pay off astronomical medical debts due to that one ingrown toenail a decade ago.

      All they know is that their eternal rulers since a hundred years blame someone else, and the power of the church cements their inclination not to rock the boat and “stick together”.

      Who can blame them in a two party state? We have one alternative party more than Russia, or China.