One more time for the pundits who still don't get it: the current senate vote over voting rights legislation is DESIGNED TO FAIL, so as to put the media and public spotlight on Manchin and Sinema, and squeeze them into a pulp so they'll feel pressured to cave on this later.
None of this is remotely difficult to understand. In fact, most pundits are professing that they "don't get it" in such emphatic and histrionic fashion, it's fair to suspect that they DO get it, and they've decided they can get more attention & retweets by pretending they don't.
The people who *honestly* think voting rights legislation is dead, are frankly morons, EXTREME morons, people who have literally zero understanding of how anything in politics works or ever gets done. Not to be rude, but if you're that clueless, shut up and get out of the way.
The real shame is that pundits are only able to get ahead by dishonestly pandering to the defeatists, because the defeatists are such idiots. No one with a political IQ above zero thinks "Manchin and Sinema will never cave no matter what!" That's infant level simplistic thinking.
We're talking about the kind of moron who watched a preseason football game, mistakenly thinks it counts, bashes their own team for not trying to win it, and histrionically declares that their team's season is over because they didn't win it. That level of cluelessly stupid.
Yet because most political activists are precisely that clueless when it comes to how politics works, and most media and pundit types have figured out they can get ahead career-wise by pushing simplistic doomsday stuff and keeping activists clueless.
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