• Landrin201@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    It’s not my fault that you failed civics in elementary school but you need to go pick up a civics book and read it, because it’s very clear that you haven’t got a clue how our government works.

    How can you look at the GOP in congress voting lockstep with the party line and claim that you just vote for the individual?

    Or are you just being deliberately obtuse in order to muddy the water for observers so people will be more receptive to your regressive arguments?

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      1 year ago

      I actually did pretty well in my political related classes, I didn’t take civics but various other US history classes, human geography, etc.

      How can you look at the GOP in congress voting lockstep with the party line and claim that you just vote for the individual?

      Okay I just checked for the past 15 votes(as of July 14th at 15:34 CEST) here is my source

      I tallied every vote dissenting from the majority for each party and I actually threw in a 16th because one was a repeat vote just with more members(even though it had a different result):

      TOTAL
      rep dissents 273
      dem dissents 114
      
      HR 2670 amendment: 18
      rep 0
      dem 9
      
      HR 2670 amendment: 19
      rep 1
      dem 1
      
      HR 2670 amendment: 20(vote 1)
      rep 4
      dem 0
      
      HR 2670 amendment: 20(vote 2)
      rep 4
      dem 0
      
      HR 2670 amendment: 21
      rep 3
      dem 2
      
      HR 2670 amendment: 22
      rep 0
      dem 2
      
      HR 2670 amendment: 24
      rep 3
      dem 17
      
      HR 2670 amendment: 27
      rep 41
      dem 0
      
      HR 2670 amendment: 28
      rep 98
      dem 49
      
      HR 2670 amendment: 29
      rep 1
      dem 0
      
      HR 2670 amendment: 30
      rep 74
      dem 5
      
      HR 2670 amendment: 31
      rep 8
      dem 2
      
      HR 2670 amendment: 32
      rep 9
      dem 0
      
      HR 2670 amendment: 33
      rep 25
      dem 0
      
      HR 2670 amendment: 34
      rep 0
      dem 27
      
      HR 2670 amendment: 38
      rep 2
      dem 0
      
      

      So, I wouldn’t say dissenting from majority votes are particularly one sided.