The United Farm Workers on Tuesday announced its endorsement of President Joe Biden for reelection, saying that the Democrat has proven throughout his life to be an “authentic champion” for workers and their families, regardless of race or national origin.

The farm workers’ union was co-founded by Cesar Chavez, the late grandfather of Julie Chavez Rodriguez, who Biden named as his 2024 campaign manager. Her father, Arturo Rodriquez, is a past UFW president.

Julie Rodriguez and “special guests” were expected to formally announce the endorsement later Tuesday at Muranaka Farms in the city of Moorpark in southern California.

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    I said she demonstrated what Democrats are all about and I meant it. When Democrats have a chance to do something for poor people that they don’t want to do, they find an excuse and find enough votes to go along with that excuse.

    There were eight Democrats who voted that workers in this country aren’t worth one penny more than $7.25/hr. So let’s say some Republican who agrees with those 8 filibusters. In order to get to the 60 needed for cloture, Democrats would need 68 seats in the Senate. Do you think “shut up, be happy, vote harder” is gonna get us to 68?

    And let’s say by some fucking miracle we increase the majority by a whopping 18 senators. Only one of them needs to be a Sinema-style centrist to vote against workers and we’ll be back to “Oh well, Guess we didn’t have enough senators lol. Now let’s throw half a trillion at the military to celebrate!”

    Democrats will not increase the minimum wage. Too few of them want to.

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      She’s not even a Democrat anymore. I personally think democrats need to just tank the filibuster at some point. Some democrats fear what would happen at some future hypothetical Republican senate without a filibuster, but I personally think that’s silly, as Republicans will probably just get rid of it whenever they feel it’s advantageous to them.

      Democrats are clearly better than the alternative party (and the third party candidates haven’t exactly been stellar), but we also need to be active in the primary elections and keep getting more progressives in there and boot people like Sinema out.

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        I personally think democrats need to just tank the filibuster at some point.

        They should have done so already. They won’t. They love their procedural excuse for inaction.

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          I don’t buy that one bit. Politicians want to be re elected, and it’s far easier to run on a record of having done something. A lot of people voting hardly even know what a filibuster is or why it would have prevented something from happening. In one Monmouth survey linked below, only 19% of people called themselves very familiar with a filibuster. It’s not exactly going to help them to get re elected by failing to do anything then appealing to a vague parliamentary procedure most people are hardly aware of. Do you seriously see campaign ads going, oh look at the good things I was going to do but didn’t but it’s okay cause parliamentary procedure made it hard, vote for me again. Theory makes no sense.

          https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/12/politics/filibuster-polls-analysis/index.html

          And again if you want the filibuster elimated, you’re best bet is on the democrats. They almost managed it for the voting rights bill, with 48 democrats for making a filibuster exception, only 2 against, and every single republican against.

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            Do you seriously see campaign ads going, oh look at the good things I was going to do but didn’t but it’s okay cause parliamentary procedure made it hard, vote for me again.

            No, I see them being like “our opponents are fascists and you have no choice” with heavy overtones of “shut up and be happy, peasant.”