“¹If the mid-term 2022 ends up being a wipe out for the leftist communists in the Biden administration, Joe Manchin will be their 2024 candidate.”

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/05/11/interesting-joe-manchin-questions-dia-berrier-and-dni-haines-about-whether-ukraine-can-win-dia-confirms-we-are-in-a-proxy-war-with-russia/#more-232940

When members are not given the time to examine a bill but vote for an essentially unseen bill anyway, it is a virtual certainty that they do not care and prima facie evidence of an utter indifference to what is contained in the bill.

That wouldn’t tell you anything about the truth or falsehood of what I said, because I never said that “a majority… do not actually care”.

Even if they care only about getting paid, they nonetheless care about the content of this bill. Both venality and ideology are at play, and each politician has a different proportion; and maybe none of them are at 0 or at 100.

There’s obviously no intrinsic relationship between Leftish politics and support for the sort of thing in Schumer’s bill, or you can’t explain European abortion laws, which are considerably more restrictive even than Mississippi’s.

There’s a spectrum of Dems, and I’ll label three points for you. It’s trivial to do the same for Republicans, obviously:

1) Worshippers of Moloch who want to maximize the number of abortions and the lateness at which abortion can be legal.

2) Politicians who personally care about the abortion issue in itself, at varying degrees of pro-choiciness, which you could measure by weeks of pregnancy if you wished.

3) Politicians who care about the issue only in so far as it helps them keep their seat and make money.

All I am saying is that the median Dem Congressman or Senator is somewhere between 2) and 3) inclusive. The median is not found between 1) and 2).

The ones found between 1) and 2) put the system of patronage-by-appropriation in danger. It’s exactly the same situation on the Republican side, of course.

There are people who benefit from the narrative that politicians representing half the country are fiends who hate us and will hurt us if they are elected. These people are not voters.

Can you point to a piece of evidence which says a majority voting on the procedural preliminaries do not actually care about the content of the bill?

The Democrat leadership may think their agenda is unknown or hidden, but folks who read and post here are not willfully blind or duped by the Dems IMO.

To imagine that the democrat leadership do not have an agenda that they do not publicly acknowledge is to be, at best willfully blind.

Appropriations and accommodating rent-seekers. Spend the taxpayers’ money and steer legislation to build their networks of patronage and clientage. They don’t build their fortunes on their < $200 K salary.

Some percentage of the D's in Congress would build socialism if they could; just as some R's would move the country in a more conservative direction if they could. But there's a large mass of them, most likely a numerical majority, who are in Congress primarily to help their friends and themselves make money, and the party platform and the politicking are in service to that end.

Just as the Globetrotter and Generals move the ball around the court, but they are not really playing basketball. They are a theatrical performance and not actually on different sides. The difference is that the media doesn’t pretend it’s a real game.