Beware of People Pretending to Be on Our Side

[moniss]

239. Moscow Mitch

and Manchin desperately want that infrastructure bill that already passed the Senate. It is loaded with billions of dollars for their favored donors. That is why they forced the separation of traditional infrastructure investment from human resources investment. They figured that they could make a hollow promise about passing both at the same time (which never made sense anyway since it's akin to a vendor telling you he can sell you a hot dog and a bun individually but he can't sell you a hot dog in the bun) while doing the ping-pong act between Manchin and Sinema until the human part of the bill is gutted to almost nothing. Their calculation was that in the end no matter what the "hard infrastructure" bill passed by the Senate would eventually get voted through by the House in order not to have that go down also. I'm saying don't give in to that strategy or you will deal with it on every last thing of any importance. Once they know you will cave they are not just going to walk away from that tactic. So you cannot give in and you must show them that you are ready to blow their plans for billions for their donors out of the water and just pass extensions to the already existing Highway programs etc. The alternative is to try and go to the electorate and convince them to give us another shot even though we only brought incremental change while we promised fundamental change. The average voter doesn't get into the whole thing of knowing politics like we do and that Manchin etc. hamstrung the situation. Combine that with trying to overcome massive voter suppression and we can be fairly certain of the outcome. But if you show people you will fight for them all the way and get our messaging straight on that we stand a better chance in my opinion. It is hard to convince people that our own members didn't castrate Biden and more years will make it better because they in fact did castrate him with help and support from the other side. social and economic resistance is all we have left. Just like the Civil Rights marchers, anti-war protests etc. resistance to tyranny with social and economic pressure does work.