A generational divide, seen in newer lawmakers’ impatience with bipartisanship and for colleagues who don’t understand new media, has emerged as one of the deepest rifts within the party.

My impression is that contrary to the headline, this isn’t a young vs old thing, but a follows-the-news vs doesn’t-follow-news thing

  • AtariDump@lemmy.world
    42·
    2 days ago

    Difficult in a state where you have to declare a party (and “none” doesn’t count; they only recognize R or D)

    • Zorque@lemmy.worldEnglish
      32·
      2 days ago

      Sounds like it’s as easy as declaring a party. Are there some strange initiation rituals you need to go through to declare? Sacrifice a goat or something?

        • Zorque@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          Then you can watch as things don’t change because of your stubborn pride.

          You can declare a party to vote in an election and remain philosophically independent, that’s always been allowed.

          • AtariDump@lemmy.world
            01·
            2 days ago

            This right here is why people don’t vote in the primaries and instead of saying, “huh, you’re right, you shouldn’t have to register with a party” you’re doubling down on your horrid stance.

            • Zorque@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              2 days ago

              You’re right! The system sucks!

              The problem is, if you don’t do anything but complain about it, at best it stays the same. More likely it gets worse.

              But sure, fine, you’re mildly inconvenienced. That’s totally an intelligent and rational reason to sit on your ass and complain rather than doing something about it.

        • lemonskate@lemmy.world
          22·
          2 days ago

          Well I suppose you could always whine about it online instead?

          It costs you nothing to register as a Dem so you can vote against these fuckers in the primaries, except maybe some worthless sense of idealogical purity.

          • AtariDump@lemmy.world
            21·
            2 days ago

            I have 0 desire to be mercilessly spammed by the Dems or Repubs because I registered with their party.

            Plus no one but me should know / needs to know my party affiliation. In today’s day and age of wanting more privacy, this is part of it. I don’t want to be on the wrong side of history because I was registered with a party.