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Still worth fighting for

Sam Webb
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The final reconciliation bill is being scaled back considerably, thanks to Manchin and Sinema, but its passage is still vital to the lives of tens of millions and the outcome of the midterm elections – not to mention next week’s off year elections. It will be much less than we hoped for, but its passage is still of great consequence to the country’s future.

The Republicans, who are firmly a party of undemocratic, white nationalist, plutocratic authoritarian rule, are hoping that the final negotiations going on among Democrats and the Biden administration will break down this week and the bill will die.

If that happened, it would be a major defeat for Biden, Democrats, and the coalition that elected them in 2020, while at the same time deliver an early Christmas gift to the Trumpified GOP and no doubt give it added steam heading into the midterm elections next year. As for the future of democratic governance, it wouldn’t be the death knell, but the road to its preservation would get steeper for sure.

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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.

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