 So I want to take some time to go over a patreon poll By the time you see this it's likely that if there's gonna be a vote on build back better It will have already occurred. So just keep that in mind But I wanted to gauge where my viewers were at when it comes to the performance of the congressional progressive caucus overall This isn't necessarily a temperature check on the squad or Pramila Jayapal are any one individual member But just overall the collective performance of the congressional progressive caucus So here's what I asked my patreon patrons when it comes to negotiations regarding build back better and bipartisan infrastructure What are your feelings about the congressional progressive caucuses handling of negotiations? So this was conducted on November 6th. This is not a scientific poll So keep that in mind, of course So we have one vote with one person saying that I'm very satisfied We have two votes with somewhat satisfied. They could have done more We have 17 votes with satisfied with some members dissatisfied with others and Then we have dissatisfied overall six votes and I'm very dissatisfied They did not fight hard enough with 23 votes and then we have two people who haven't followed it So I would find myself in this category. I'm very dissatisfied. They did not fight hard enough now When it comes to these six members of the squad who voted against this I believe that was Jamal Bowman, Corey Bush, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Presley, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib. I'm I'm fine with their performance I think that they did everything that they could but overall if the congressional progressive caucus is weak Then there's not much that those six individual members can do right so it You're only as strong as your weakest link and when you have almost all the links be really weak Then that's gonna that's gonna be an issue. But let me get to some of the comments here because Some of my patrons they shared their reasoning here and their insight is really I think informative So mr. Anderson says watching it go from a six trillion to three point five trillion to one point eight trillion And now a measly one trillion with the progressive caucus praising Biden and bipartisanship with every major cut I can't convince myself They put up any kind of a fight at all and that's just it I think that what makes matters worse for me is all of the praise That is being heaped on Biden from individuals like Primula Jayapal. She's just taking it too far and she's Declaring this a victory now again if build back better is passed and it's good Then she gets credit for that we'll have to wait and see but I mean after she voted for infrastructure Before the Senate passed build back better. I thought at that point That's that's bad and yet to kind of claim that you won is Bizarre and you kind of look foolish because even in DC circles when you see the articles you have corporate Democrats commenting anonymously So about how they're really perplexed as to how progressive lawmakers don't feel like they got rolled they did get rolled I think objectively so they got rolled more on this we have Dorian gray 11 who says this entire situation is gross What's the point of electing progressives if they can't hold the line and give president Joe Manchin everything he wants? Pathetic this isn't compromise. It's utter capitulation and see this is something that is so important because what progressive lawmakers do? affects the success rate in a way, I think of 2022 progressives running for Congress so anyone who I brought on my show now, you know it this Lack of performance by the CPC it hurts them because they think yeah, what's the point? Why give my hard-earned money to these people who are just gonna get in there and go along with the establishment? So that's why if this is bad not just from a policy standpoint, but because it really Depresses the progressive movement Joe 6 says rolling over and playing dead does not bode well for our democracy totally agree Anna says There are only a handful of progressives They have the entire Republican Party as well as the corporate Democrats and media against them Then there are racist no hard people out there that continue to vote for them The progressives can only yell so loud without support and it doesn't help that mansion in cinema Don't care about anything except putting money into their pockets The whole corrupted system allows mansion in cinema to be the pieces of shit that they are and look at the bullshit that happened to India Walton Buffalo, New York. She got robbed from the Democratic Party I still think we need to have that continued fight within us and show up to vote for progressives well said Chris says I voted very dissatisfied But I do give six progressives that voted against the billback better bill or bipartisan infrastructure bill rather credit Totally agree Gina says listening to Pramila Jayapal gushingly praise Biden who hasn't done much to advance his own agenda shows that Progressives are far more concerned with career advancement in the Democratic Party than with actual progressives for the country after all our hard work of getting Progressives elected we have to primary them to show them We will withhold our votes this the system is corrupt and we can only break the corporate duopoly by voting for alternative parties Open primaries ranked choice voting and end the electoral college So in order to actually have a viable alternative party We need electoral reform first and the conundrum is that to get electoral reform We have to elect more progressives, but they're not going to be elected unless they run in the Democratic Party So we're kind of in this unending cycle where you have these dominant parties and nothing really changes What I will say is that I don't necessarily agree with primarying the progressives that are good progressives But there's a lot of members in the congressional progressive caucus that definitely need to be primary in fact I don't even know why they're in the congressional progressive caucus some people are in both the congressional progressive caucus and the problem solvers caucus Or or they were in the problem solvers caucus and that just shouldn't be acceptable Like you have to have standards to accept someone into into the congressional progressive caucus otherwise, it's gonna be you know a weakened unit where there's gonna be disunity and you know, they're gonna be Susceptible to rolling over to the establishment Mari says very disappointed in representative. Jai pal. She was not our pal this time Yeah, packer craze as most of us probably expected the eventual result and generally predicted just about all the steps that happened along the way We knew the progressive wing would eventually do what they always do and fold when the when decision time arrived If anything it makes it it more frustrating to end up being right yet again But the factlessness of the left in the halls of power and that's the thing the more that we don't score victories the more that people begin to lose hope and check out and You know, that's that's really unfortunate because we need to stay engaged But if you keep getting beat down time and again, and once you're on the ground, they kick you and spit on you a Lot of people they don't take kindly to that. So I mean all of these responses here I don't see how you can read any of these responses and think that they're unreasonable Everything that they're saying here is rational and and reasonable. I have the smartest viewers by the way Jacqueline Roberts says I'm disgusted with the CPC except for our squad They may get a little wobbly But they do care and they do try and I would agree with that right? I criticized them from time to time AOC's Iron Dome vote was a catastrophe, but overall I do think that she Is headed in the right direction even if she missteps a lot, right? I think that Ilhan Omar is probably my favorite. Maybe Rashida Tlaib, but yeah I think that their heart is in the right place They just showed us how much leverage they have and we should be able to see that they need lots of new company and there's so much good They do that never gets covered. That's exactly it. While lead says I thought more will come out of holding the line I understand that what happens in public may be different from what happens in private in terms of negotiations But voting on biff bill without the reconciliation bill at the same time looks pointless from my vantage point Some provisions have been added to the biff bill, but they are less than the minimum needed For example, the current biff bill has 15 billion for replacing lead pipes even though 45 billion is needed That is such a good point. That's such a good point Christian Lissala says the fact that they held out this long was good and I agree with that And they probably could have done more media circuits going after mansion cinema, but they should have kept holding the line I think Pramila Jaipal accepting the framework was a show of naivete and the Virginia results were the final nail in the coffin Yeah, and I think that that does play a role I think that Kind of reading the room and knowing that she would be blamed and the left more broadly speaking would be blamed Pramila Jaipal probably thought I mean, we're kind of fucked So, you know, there's just overall a lot of disappointment and again I'm talking about this without information about the vote and how that goes because I'm recording this ahead of time So Maybe they'll prove me wrong. You'll know by the time you see this If there was a vote, but you know, overall it's just it's really really disappointing and It's hard to be a leftist it really is so I want you to tell me what you want To see asked I can poll my patreon patrons. We can poll our youtube members. Let me know in the comments What do you want to see and uh, yeah, let's make this a common occurrence because I like these polls I think it's important to gauge where the viewership is at Not necessarily because what they say will direct what I'm going to do or say on the show But because I think it's necessary to kind of See what other people are thinking who may not be glued to this as much as I am But I mean everything they say is pretty lined up with me We're all in lockstep. So I think it is important. So let me know what kind of poll you want to see Um My views are much higher