And this is why this strategy was bound to fail. It's almost as if these neoprogressives don't realize there are more centrists in congress than them. Literally the only way this would have had a chance of passing the House is if a large enough percentage of those moderates voted for it. If they have no fear of a primary challenge, why would they care to vote for this? How many cycles is it realistically going to take to primary all these centrists who won't vote for it. It would take years to even get a chance to get M4A.
What? These were the loudest voices pushing for this and the main ones AOC et al were responding to. You're admitting you're not even informed on what was going on.
Those 'actual votes' could be because some moderate was afraid of a primary challenge, or they just voted for it because they knew it was going to fail anyway. There's nothing materially 'more substantial' about the votes unless it actually passed.
Where it would probably still fail because a self-admitted 'conservative Democrat' like Joe Manchin wouldn't vote for it, not to mention all the other moderates in the Senate. Or McConnell filibusters it and kills it (which no doubt he will) because the Dems have such a narrow majority.
It's almost as if these are the kind of strategy things people like AOC warned about, but nobody wanted to listen because they were too busy calling her a neoliberal sellout whore.
So you admit that this was all for show and wouldn't get anybody healthcare.
Thank you. Why was that so hard?