Goose stepping? What the fuck is that supposed to mean?
Biden's already come down BIG from his initial Infrastructure plan, but I suspect whatever eventually gets agreed to will be called HUGE!!!
And Rs will claim credit for rebuilding highways, bridges and tunnels in red states.
But turning democracy into rubble.
I don't feel like searching and pulling but In June 2020 I proposed a limited to do list for Joe to do: Beat covid, get America back to school and work, pass an infrastructure plan to goose the economy and put food on the table, pay the rent. Things most Americans could easily support. And then work on voting rights.
Then intro some EPA/Green initiatives so we don't continue pollute ourselves to oblivion. And most Americans would support that agenda and he'd have a fighting chance to hold Congress in '22.
its kind of playing out as I imagined.
Everybody wanted the covid relief, and most want an infrastructure, depending upon the definitions.
Repubs want and need voter suppression, Dems don't.
So a Voting Rights bill might be tricky to get done.
So I think Joe should ratchet up a plan to double or triple legal hiring at DoJ.
If Manchin hadn’t cock blocked the filibuster everything 85 million people voted for would be law.
Slow walking negotiations to then vote against the negotiated bill is GOP SOP.
Policy is winning politics deliver the policies you campaigned on and you keep winning. What did in the Obama Administration were moderate Dems who watered down the ACA and then slow walking it gave the Astro Turf Tea Party space to demonize Socialist Muslim imposter. 60 vote majority delivered incomplete program which is now Uber popular.
12 years later and the GOP is STILL trying to kill the ACA though in the wake of the pandemic if they ever succeeded they would suffer a blood bath.
Give the people not just what they want but what they need and they’ll understand who tried to keep them from getting it.
Status quo will destroy our democratic republic and send us into the white nationalist autocracy.
The time to do this is now and Manchin and Sinema are trying to deliver us to tyranny.
Is West Virginia more important than the rest of the country writ large?
I didn’t agree with you last June and I don’t agree now.
Alacrity is key when you have power because the longer you wait the more racism comes into play.
The 2020 election was somewhat derailed from a blowout by the GOP with help from Moderate Democrats including Rep. Clyburn giving credence to the fear freakout over Defund the Police instead of stepping up and say ing the GOP was fill of shit because NO DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE OF ANY NATIONAL STATURE called for defunding the police.
It was a conservative bogeyman and white folks let themselves get played.
When cops sparked the riots that began as demonstrations too many folks “we understand your concerns but all the burning and looting hurst your cause!”
No, it meant too many value property over people... and cops are still murdering civilians at a comparable rate.
In order to lead the world through the rest of this century the old paradigm of placating those in the middle will have to go because the middle is no longer the middle.
Republicans have gone so far right what used to be the middle is way right. Progressives are actually the moderates of the 60s. They ain’t the ones planting bombs and.burning the ROTC buildings.
Biden has come down and GOP is offering bullshit. If they don’t come up with a real compromise Biden gets to implement his plan... if those MODERATE DEMS Manchin, Sinema and their silent partners Testor and King don’t fuck this up.
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