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His constituents are all the people in his district, Republican and Democrat. Since you made the assertion that he acted against the will of his constituents, what do you have to back that up?

I have this:

Overall, 60 percent of Americans say Trump bears either a “great deal” or a “good amount” of responsibility for the insurrection, but 72 percent of Republicans and 83 percent of Trump voters say he bears “just some” responsibility or “none at all.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/01/01/post-poll-january-6/

So the majority of Americans believe that he bears at least a good amount of responsibility. Hell, Kevin McCarthy said as much before he bent the knee. If Gonzo actions coincide with the majority, how did he ignore his constituents?

Furthermore, this was his response, ver batim:

“I like to think that no matter who is the perpetrator, whether it’s a foreign actor or domestic actor, if somebody is attacking the United States Congress, the President of the United States will step up and do everything to stop it and stop it immediately,” Gonzalez said after his impeachment vote. “Instead, we saw what amounted to escalation, indifference for a period of time and then a sort of ham-handed attempt at calming the situation that didn’t happen until hours into the insurrection.”


After his decision to retire, Gonzalez said he still believes his impeachment vote was “the right decision for the country” and its correctness will “become increasingly obvious” in future years. He also decried the increasingly shrill nature of both political parties, and said he believes “fewer and fewer people” are identifying with the loudest voices in each one. He has continued to vote in favor of efforts to hold Trump and his associates accountable for the insurrection, supporting the creation of a bipartisan commission to probe the riot, and voting to hold former Trump advisor Steve Bannon in contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena to testify before the January 6 committee.

“You cannot build a political movement around a person or a personality,” Gonzalez said of Republican allegiance to Trump. “People are fleeting and they’re flawed. The Republican Party needs to build itself on timeless conservative ideals, the ideals of of Abraham Lincoln of Ronald Reagan, that put the family at the center of society, that reduce the size of government, and promote freedom throughout society. That’s ultimately what I hope the Republican party gets back to, but this obsession over one individual, and blind loyalty to that one individual, it’s a dead end politically, but it’s also horribly toxic for the country.”

https://www.cleveland.com/news/2021...congress-members-say.html?outputType=amp

Not one thing he said was wrong.

He acted against his own career self-interests, not his constituents. Unfortunately, that’s what makes him stand apart from the Jim Jordans of the world and all the other people who have come to infect and corrupt the Republican Party. Doing the right thing is what caused his party - not his constituents - to oust him. Is that the democracy we want? Where someone doesn’t fall in line with a party - again, nothing to do with constituents - and they get censured and blacklisted. He didn’t fail his voters. He ticked off one man, who he was willing to stand up to against his own personal interests to preserve what this country was built for.

And that gives me a glimmer of hope.

You say bye bye to somebody who was willing to put principle over power. Just another who is ousted by the machine that has decided to flaunt our founding principles and create a king. Just another degradation of a party I was once a part of.

Please go ahead and cheer on your Gaetz, Greene, Boebert, and McCarthys.

The most successful form of radicalization throughout history are the forms where the radicalized don’t realize it.

I say bye bye to someone who blew a very prestigious job by putting feelings before thinking.

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I say bye bye to someone who blew a very prestigious job by putting feelings before thinking.

And who decided it was more important to represent himself instead of those who voted him in for that job.

Do I smell smoke?

It would fall on deaf ears as you have moved to far into the Leftist Bubble.

You say bye bye to somebody who was willing to put principle over power. Just another who is ousted by the machine that has decided to flaunt our founding principles and create a king. Just another degradation of a party I was once a part of.

Please go ahead and cheer on your Gaetz, Greene, Boebert, and McCarthys.

The most successful form of radicalization throughout history are the forms where the radicalized don’t realize it.

You forgot to mention he didn't represent his constituents as he was elected to do.

You forgot to mention he didn't represent his constituents as he was elected to do.

Again, you have nothing to back this up.

Apparently I’ve moved to the leftist bubble. I’m not sure which one of my beliefs is leftist. I guess if facts make me leftist, then call me Bernie Sanders.

What's your solution for fixing the homeless problem?

I'll tell you what the solution is. There needs to be govt run institutions that rehab them. Get them off the drugs and treat their mental health and put them to work. It needs to be mandatory. If you're homeless you get picked up and put in a program. Some people will be success stories, some won't. But all of them will think twice about being homeless because they won't want to get picked up by the govt for treatment.

I already answered that question in a different thread. No.

I already answered that question in a different thread. No.

I'll tell you what the solution is. There needs to be govt run institutions that rehab them. Get them off the drugs and treat their mental health and put them to work. It needs to be mandatory. If you're homeless you get picked up and put in a program. Some people will be success stories, some won't. But all of them will think twice about being homeless because they won't want to get picked up by the govt for treatment.