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He has changed since he was Lt. Governor of Pennsylvania. He has been treated for a stroke and depression. I applaud his candor and openness in discussing his treatment. Getting medical treatment is not weakness.
However, his political positions have shifted since his term in Harrisburg and Senate election. Each day it seems like he less represents me and shares my views. I'll be pushing for Malcom Kenyatta to run against him in the 2028 primary.
What is more upsetting is that even if he "changed his mind" his current ideals is not what the voters thought they were voting for. It is still unethical for him to completely change his stance after getting the job.
I find your theory that politicians have ethics amusing.
It's not unheard of. Barely even a rarity; it's just that the terrible ones never quit and seem to have a natural lifespan about 30% longer.
Not a conspiracy theory either, it's just that stress-free lifestyle of not giving a shit about anyone.
They would have ethics if we selectively culled the unethical ones like we're supposed to.
Another Sinema. The Democrats don't do a very good job of vetting Congressional candidates.
Nah, he legit seems to be a Phineas Gage situation (unlike Sinema). Went extreme right wing after a stroke.
Says a lot about being extremely right wing tho...
In 2013, John Fetterman chased a black jogger around his neighbourhood because he though fireworks were gunshots. More importantly, he never apologized.
The plausible deniability is there, I admit. But not apologizing is what makes me think he was always like this. The stroke just made it so he no longer had the capacity to hide it.
He was very against murder in his town, it was his whole thing. If I offer him the benefit of the doubt I can see him pulling that for at least a good reason, and unlike so many other incidents with mega racists he didn’t shoot the guy even though he had the capacity to.
I don’t think Fetterman was ever a genius, to be fair. In fact with more research into him I might even go so far as to use him as an example that you don’t have to be Einstein to be a good person, and that conservatives being stupid is only part of it; they are stupid and hateful. Whatever happened here seems to have pushed him over the edge he was already teetering on.
Damn...not a dig at you, Soup, but "He was against murder" and "At least he didn't shoot the black guy" as defences really shows us where we are at for our country's representatives, huh?
I didn't say he was bad for his constituents. I just gave a publicly available reason that could have contributed to his turn to the right. For me personally, not apologizing after he made a very clear mistake, especially as we saw the increasing reports of black people getting profiled in white neighborhoods, is a yellow flag at the very least.
We have people in this thread asking why Democrats always have at least one guy who turns out to be a wolf in sheep's clothing. The fact of the matter is, we all have prejudicial biases, no matter how liberal or left leaning our politics are. It's not bad to acknowledge and confront them. A lot of privileged Democrat voters though are afraid to look that in the eye, and then they're surprised when people they elect suddenly turn out to be unpalatable to them.
Intentional.
Skip the "democratic" part. A grifter supports Trump. Nothing new here.
He's definitely different following his stroke, I would not say he went into the running as a grifter.
He suffered a stroke and came out of it as a piece of garbage.
Edit: typo I to > into
Proof that most Republicans just have brain injuries
Chronic lead poisoning can absolutely cause brain damage, so that tracks.
RFK Jr., Gary Busy, Kevin Sorbo...
Lucy Lawless claims Sorbo has always been an ass, but there does seem to be less restraint since his injury. Empathy seems to require more more brain function then cruelty. I've never heard of someone becoming nicer after a traumatic head injury.
And dementia. One of the symptoms of early onset dementia is loss of empathy.
Fetterman is a great example of what happens when you put faith into any Amerikkkan government official.
Yup. Remember how excited people were when Sinema was elected? Surely because this person is gay and weird they couldn't possible betray us, right?
Fetterman's the same way.
A family man from a small town becomes a fascist when elevated to a national stage.
"It's a big club, and you ain't in it" -George Carlin
It makes a lot of sense. Fascists love simple "solutions" to complex problems which is what I would expect out of small town representatives.
Fetterman is such a huge disappointment to me. There was a point where I would have put good money on him winning the 2028 presidency as a Democrat.
He's been bought and or has serious leverage on him in some other way.
That's what I've always suspected, although the brain damage aspect rings true too. My father had some similar issues and as his mental decline intensified, so too did his conservatism.
Yeah, my dad had a TBI in 2015 and drank the orange kool-aid.
Don't be ableist. He's evil and corrupt because most politicians are. Get money out of politics!
There have been studies on this, brain damage is linked to more conservative political beliefs.
It is not ableist to point out a fact.
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rstb.2020.0137
I had a TBI as a teenager and went from moderately liberal to full blown anarcho communist.
You meet one person with a brain injury, you’ve met one person with a brain injury. We’re all very different because the brain is barely understood by science and our injuries even harder to quantify.
Also if you look at sufferers of CTE most become aggressive and violent until they end up taking their own lives. See boxers, football players, combat veterans. I think there’s a link between aggression and right wing ideology.
So, liberal to authoritarian? Figures.
Anarchists are not authoritarians.
Do you know which exact type of brain damage he suffers from? Because it states while damage in one affected area can have an effect on your political opinion, damage in different areas show no difference whatsoever. It wouldn't surprise me to see if other types of brain damage could make you more liberal too. We do know liberal and conservative brains show some differences, so different damage in different areas could make you swing either way. I mean neuroscience is still in it's infancy, so a lot of this is just observing and trying to see patterns. Saying "brain damage makes you conservative" is too broad of a claim. It's certainly not backed by this study.
EDIT: One more thing I don't really understand is what this argument is trying to achive anyway. Do you want to take voting rights from people who had a stroke because they can't decide for themselves? This topic is really thin ice and it's usually fascist groups that propose such things.
It wouldn't surprise me to see if other types of brain damage could make you more liberal too.
I will happily read a study that demonstrates this, however I have only been able to locate results that show brain injuries tend to make people more conservative.
If you want anyone to take you seriously on this topic you need to provide more than conjecture.
As for my argument, I have done nothing more than provide the facts as I understand them based on scientific studies.
Saying "brain damage makes you conservative" is too broad of a claim
Just circling back to this because that is explicitly not what I said. Read what I commented again.
Yes and... this guy literally had a stroke and then his political actions took a 180.
I would have to agree with the guy above You. When he was pretending to be left wing, the right blamed his stroke and the left said it had nothing to do with that. Now that he turned around it's suddenly a problem? He was just always a grifter. Watch Some More News on him.
When he was pretending to be left wing, the right blamed his stroke and the left said it had nothing to do with that. Now that he turned around it’s suddenly a problem?
Unless the person you replied to personally exhibited both dismissing it the first time and caring about it now, I don't see how this is relevant. "The Left" is not a monolith, and even less so than other groups often mistakenly treated as a monolith.
It’s not ablest to discuss a brain injury affects one’s cognitive function. Especially not when it’s in regards to a public figure in power. Your next door neighbor? Maybe inappropriate unless they’re causing trouble. A senator? Totally appropriate.
It's not ableist to point out the verifiable facts as we know them. It's also not ableist to discuss real world adverse effects from medical conditions. There was a marked change in many of his stances after the stroke.
Money in politics is a massive issue, and the root of a lot of our current problems... that doesn't mean we ignore history or we simply ignore possible reasons why a politician's stances change.
I'm sure if you had a stroke and suddenly turned into a bigger asshole you'd want the benefit of the doubt for your opinions until that stroke instead of being lumped into always having been a giant douche.
This piece of shit is from my neck of the woods too.
I’m so glad I didn’t vote for him. I didn’t vote for Oz either, I wrote in “Juan Guaidó”.
Of course this grifter supports it
Fuck Fetterman. I used to love him. His support of trans people was so touching. Now he's a joke. He needs to resign.