Isn’t the main, overarching issue of this moment the passage of a voting rights bill at the federal level? It will require, if not a wholesale change in the filibuster rule, a modification of it as it applies to voting rights.
A national action of some kind would strike the right note at this moment. The pandemic, however, makes that difficult. But isn’t turning the difficult into the doable what creative minds in the main organizations defending democacy and fighting for social progress are supposed to do?
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Sam Webb
I'm a long-time socialist and activist, but new to the blogging world. I hope to bring a different perspective on politics, sports, culture, and Marxism. Besides blogging, I also leave plenty of time for swimming, hiking, ESPN, music, reading, drinking good beer, and, not least, my family and friends. I wish I could play basketball, but my knees ruled out that possibility long ago.
While I currently reside in New York, my politically formative years were spent in Portland, Me. and Detroit during the 1970s and 1980s. I graduated from St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia (where I played basketball) and received a MA in economics from the University of Connecticut.
I was the national chairperson of the Communist Party, USA from 2000 until 2014 when I stepped down at the convention. In 2016 I resigned from the Communist Party two years later. We were no longer on the same page.
