Liberals get in their own way. Purity isn’t just a problem on the right. It is a growing disease on the left as well.
In 2010, Nancy Pelosi got the US House of representatives to pass DREAM Act of 2010 that gave DREAMERS legal rights. The bill passed 216-198
Democrats supported it as a way to help young immigrants who were brought here illegally as children by their parents and have seen their lives stall after they graduate from high school because they lack legal status.
The bill, whose lead sponsor was Representative Howard L. Berman, Democrat of California, would give conditional legal status to illegal immigrants who came to the United States before they were 16, have been here for five years, have graduated from high school and have no criminal record, if they attend college or serve in the military for two years.
So, as an act of gratitude, what do pro-DACA activists do? They heckle Nancy Pelosi and call her ‘liar’. That’s right, for the service of passing DREAM Act, she gets the benefit of getting called liar.
Pelosi and Reps. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) and Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) were scheduled to speak about the legislation …
Instead, dozens of young people took over the event and called Pelosi “a liar” for saying she has fought against deportations.
The protest was organized by several Bay Area social justice groups, according to Luis Serrano, an organizer with California Immigrant Youth Justice, one of the groups involved.
“Democrats are representing themselves as the resistance when the reality is they haven’t done anything,” Serrano told POLITICO.
What’s wrong with liberals, activists that they think it is OK to heckle their own at a time when the right wing is happy to sow seeds of discontent between the Dem Party and the left / liberals.
Whoever it was who heckled Nancy Pelosi, shame on you ...