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
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    5 months 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
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      5 months 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?

        • lemonskate@lemmy.world
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          5 months 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
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            5 months 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.