The daughter of Colombian and Dominican immigrants, Mejia ran on an adamantly anti–Donald Trump message and secured a whopping 70 percent of the vote as a result. The Associated Press called her victory shortly after the votes started rolling in.
70 percent… wow!
The progressive Democrat’s positions echo several of the policies that made Sanders a national phenomenon, including support for universal health care coverage, tuition-free college, student loan forgiveness programs, and strengthening unions and expanding labor protections in order to bolster America’s middle class.
She sounds like a Democrat who wants to win and is against genocide.
Mejia has also been vocal in her criticism of Israel, publicly denouncing the state’s war on Palestine as a genocide. That caught the attention of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which funneled money into the race to bolster her opponents. In the end, the pro-Israel lobby’s efforts may have been one of the reasons that voters in New Jersey sent Mejia to Congress.
Awesome!
And people don’t realize that voting a lesser evil is still voting for evil. That people can compromise their morals and rights justify it as harm reduction confounds me anymore. I’m tired of being stabbed in the proverbial back.
The counter point is don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.
When they aren’t good, then you’re just voting evil. Stop voting evil like it makes things better.
Stop waiting for perfect. Good change happens over time it’s rarely immediate. If you wait for perfect you’re liable to miss people doing enough good to allow perfect to happen later.
People are nuanced and we don’t live in a black and white world. Hillary. Kamala. Gavin. Obama. None of them are perfect but they’re on the path there.
People need to stop being so pious around their politics.
I’m not pious, I’ve just realize neither party represents the people and are a detrimental. I’ll vote in primaries for better representation but if Newsom is their candidate in 2028, they’re losing.