Name an issue worth whipping votes:

[mr715]

-- opposing cold blooded murder by government quasi-military goons

Anything else?

[RockRaven]

1. Banning congressional stock trading

[vapor2]

2. Nope, that sums it up

[Fiendish Thingy]

3. Expanding the Supreme Court

But not until 2029.

[BlueTsunami2018]

4. Universal basic needs.

Food, water, housing, education, healthcare, a job and internet.

Or maybe pick at least one of these things.

But nobody will.

[SheltieLover]

5. Healthcare, impeachment, voting rights, ERA, etc., etc...

[Bread and Circuses]

6. Giving more money to the unnamed war criminals terrorizing people in an unnamed country on the eastern shore...

Of the Mediterranean Sea for 30 plus years.


Can’t mention names ……

[mr715]

7. Forgot about that one.

Yep, always whip for that.

[tritsofme]

8. Especially from the minority, whipping is rarely about the substance of the issue and almost always about

about the strategic value of the vote.

If withholding votes can plausibly scuttle a bill the party strongly opposes, then a heavy whip effort makes sense.

If the bill is going to pass on Republican votes alone, and there are Democratic members, particularly in Trump-won districts, whose reelections would be materially harmed by a symbolic “no,” then whipping them accomplishes nothing.

In that case, whipping isn’t moral leadership, it’s burning your own coalition for performative satisfaction, and it actively makes future Democratic majorities less likely.