Manchin & Sinema - Comment Sent

[Desert_Leslie]

I am CRUSHED that Joe Manchin's "no" could doom Build Back Better. I just sent the following comment to Senator Manchin. I also forwarded it to Senator Sinema, asking her if she could use any kernel of influence she has to get Manchin to change his vote:

My middle-class parents worked like dogs and saved up $150,000 for their retirement and thought they were fortunate. After my mother's stroke, she was totally paralyzed on one side. My parents BLEW through every penny of that money paying for the in-home caregivers my mother needed to get my mom to the toilet and the shower -- to even turn over in bed. Then they were BROKE. I woke up at 3 a.m., worried sick, for FIVE YEARS. We had NO ALTERNATIVE but to put my terrified mother into an understaffed nursing home, crammed to the brink. You, Joe Manchin, could have changed this. This was your chance to help middle-class people in so many ways. You could end SO MUCH HUMAN SUFFERING. WHY WHY WHY did you not vote for Build Back Better?

[Walleye]

1. I hate that he's blaming it on his constituents. As if he's even tried to explain it to them

This is your fault senator, not your fellow West Virginians. They thought they were voting for a Democrat

[Tommymac]

2. Because his greed is more important then your parents.

He gets $$$$$ from the Koch family and other Big Energy 1%'ers.

You can bet their families NEVER have to suffer...and they don't give a rat's ass about yours or mine or any middle class peon.

Been like this throughout history...progressives and Unionists are TRYING to relieve a bit of the suffering, but the monied control the message.

We lost so much when the M$M disinformation turned people away from Unions in the 1960's and 1970's.

[Eyeball_Kid]

5. The unregulated and undertaxed wealthy will ALWAYS

shit on those less advantaged. ALWAYS. There is no time in history when this has NOT happened.

Most political scientists will define the issue as the consequences of an under-regulated capitalist society. When wealth dictates the operations of governing, dictatorships and/or fascism is always the result. Karl Marx convincingly made that point, but his answer to the problem did not, and could not, materialize. Marxism's failure started and ended with the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. Once an elite group gains power, they fight to maintain it. Human nature is the part of the equation that Marx failed to consider.

[Tommymac]

6. Real Democracy does a decent job of regulating Capital.

But the emergence of China as a Capitalist Totalitarian State has shown the 1% the way to real permanent power.

And they are bending all the rules and taking out all the stops to turn the whole Globe Authoritarian so they can control 99.99999999% of the wealth.

The loss of Union power in the 1960's and 1970's due to a complicit M$M is now reaching it's full potential.

Effective Unions were the only thing standing between Democracy and Authoritarianism. A whole century of Progress has been dealt a blow that we may never recover from - Climate Change and Viruses could give a shit.

[Irish_Dem]

3. The GOP causing human suffering is a feature, not a bug.

They get off on the power trip.

[monkeyman1]

10. 1 good thing , republican's -

are dying off like fleas in a pet's flea dip bath ! couldn't happen to a better taliban party !!!

[Irish_Dem]

15. I guess the GOP knows their propaganda machine will get more recruits. :(

[quakerboy]

18. thus the continued move to make voting irrelevant

[JohnSJ]

4. While I applaud your effort, if you are not from West Virgina, I doubt it will have much influence

with him. Hell, even if you were from WV, I am not sure if it would matter.

Much of Manchin's donations are coming from the oil and gas lobby, etc.

[Desert_Leslie]

7. True, but --

I agree that Manchin won't pay attention to my comment -- I'm not a constituent of his.

But I forwarded my comment to Senator Sinema with this preamble:

"Senator Sinema, I am a registered democrat and your constituent. I knocked on 500 doors in your 2018 campaign. I know that you work alongside Senator Manchin and know him well. I am asking you to use any kernel of influence you have with Senator Manchin to get him to change his 'no' vote on Build Back Better to 'yes.'"

Now, will this do anything at all to change this situation? No. But it beats doing absolutely nothing. Anything beats nothing.

I introduced Senator Sinema twice at local Democratic field offices during the GOTV push. I opened my introductions with the following words from Margaret Mead. It was true when Margaret Mead said it, and it's true today ... as I have to keep telling myself:

A famous woman once said: Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

[JohnSJ]

9. +++

[Joinfortmill]

19. Be prepared Her refusal to approve is next.

[paleotn]

25. And I am sick and f'ing tired.....

of some coal baron, hick from a piss ant state having such impact on national policy. And this is from someone who lives in a piss ant state. Just not Machin's piss ant state.

[Septua]

8. I'll just add the rhetoric..

..that without the voting rights bill getting passed one way or another, Biden's agenda is academic.

[Desert_Leslie]

12. Yes

Truer words never spoken.

[Joinfortmill]

17. Yup, more important now than ever.

[housecat]

24. Yeap. It should have been first priority, but it wasn't. So we're screwed.

[YoshidaYui]

11. I don't get it either....

How is saying no going to help West Virginia?

[Desert_Leslie]

14. Great question

That's what I do not understand. WV is such a poor state. I saw that 25% of people in WV do not have their own teeth.

[childfreebychoice]

20. Teeth not required on the ramen noodle diet. nt

[housecat]

23. They voted for the evil one, and they believe Fox. No teeth is not their biggest problem

[UCmeNdc]

13. Sad

[Joinfortmill]

16. Money.

No words for his hypocrisy.

[housecat]

21. He is a DINO and only cares about money. Nothing else.

[Kablooie]

22. I wish someone would follow the money.

Probably getting a huge paycheck from some billionaire trumper.

[Dirty Socialist]

26. ZELL MANCHIN CARES!!!

About his money