The first-term Pennsylvanian has battled with progressives on Israel, immigration and energy, adopting a more caustic political persona and alienating some supporters.
    • FlowVoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
      46·
      2 years ago

      Don’t worry. He is our Susan Collins.

      Despite all of his rhetoric, Mr. Fetterman so far has voted like a reliable Democratic foot soldier.

      • worldwidewave@lemmy.world
        5·
        2 years ago

        When everyone left of fascism is in a single party now, there’s bound to be some divisions in people’s actual beliefs within the D party. It’s unsurprising that some Democrats are going to be more moderate in some areas than others, this is what coalition government looks like, and is a healthy part of a working democracy.

        It’d be better if we had ranked choice voting nationally, and could allow for smaller parties to win national seats. But short of that future, I don’t mind Fetterman voicing his thoughts and voting party line when it matters.

    • Jesus@lemmy.world
      23·
      2 years ago

      Dude is from a pretty purple constituency. Why are people surprised that he’s a mix of red and blue stances on things?

            • Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
              46·
              2 years ago

              This shit needs to stop. Anyone to the right of you is right wing, we get it. You don’t allow dissent or disagreement in the left so everyone who isn’t with you on every issue is the enemy right? You know what that sounds like right?

              A lot of people who claim to be left on here, are doing everything possible to push people away from the left, and chasing off allies with this “no true leftist” bullshit.

                • Kimano@lemmy.world
                  4·
                  2 years ago

                  This is only even close to true if you think ‘worldly’ is western Europe plus like 3 other countries. It doesn’t matter what the rest of the world thinks counts as left and right wing. Biden is a left wing American Democrat, this is such a stupid argument.

              • PumpkinSkink@lemmy.world
                2·
                2 years ago

                The words “right” and “left” politically mean the same thing they did 200 years ago. Left means you view human rights as paramount over property rights, and “Right” means you view property rights as more important than human rights. This means the dividing line is pretty clear. Capitalism, as a system, depends on property rights being enforced at the expense of people (see, being allowed to own empty residential property while people are homeless), and is therefore the dividing line. Left of center is anti-private property and anti-capital, and right of center is pro-private property rights and pro capitalism.

    • oakey66@lemmy.world
      19·
      2 years ago

      He ran as a self proclaimed progressive only to land in the Senate and become a ghoulish genocide defender reminiscent of the ADL.

      • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
        7·
        2 years ago

        Not just that: people who campaigned for him were wary of the risk he might turn right once elected. So he went out early to really convince the leftist coalitions backing him he was legit and definitely not going to do exactly what he did.

    • Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
      6·
      2 years ago

      He’s a silver spoon baby who tricked the working class that he was one of them by wearing Crocs and hoodies. I was calling him out and getting downvoted as a result since he was sworn in.

  • randon31415@lemmy.world
    39·
    2 years ago

    Sienna is retiring, someone has to be the new “ran as a progressive Democrat, reveal to be a backstabbing moron with no convictions whatsoever” in the senate

  • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldBanned from communityEnglish
    27·
    2 years ago

    Progressives should start running as centrists. They’ll only have to run against one party instead of two, and centrists have made it clear that they will run as progressives.

  • elbucho@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    2 years ago

    I’m super disappointed in him. Was a big fan of his when I saw him run, and I really liked some of the things I heard about him, like how he got a tattoo marking the date of death for each of 9 people in his city who were murdered while he was mayor. It really made me think that he felt the heavy burden of responsibility and wanted to make the world a better place.

    But this… I mean, this ain’t it. It does get a little complicated because of his stroke. I don’t know how much of the personality he’s currently displaying to the world was endemic in him before the stroke. It could be that this has been who he was the entire time, and he just hid it from the world. Either way, though, I think it’s clear that he represents a lot of unfulfilled hope. Granted, he’s likely still better than Oz, but that’s a pretty damned low bar. Fingers crossed he gets beat in the next election by someone who delivers on the hope that Fetterman originally promised.

  • Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social
    17·
    2 years ago

    I would like to primary him. Not because I think I’d win - I definitely wouldn’t - but because I want to ask him what the fuck happened to him. Like, dude, you used to be cool.

  • Xerø@infosec.pub
    1·
    2 years ago

    So NOW you all dislike Fetterman! Get in line, I was hating on the man long before he was elected because he was a proven bigot.