The outpouring of anger at Joe Manchin’s decision to bale on Build Back Better is perfectly understandable. But his decision, if something good is going to come out of this, should be a wake up call for the bill’s supporters around the country. What it should tell them/us is that a transformative piece of legislation, which BBB is, requires the public intervention of a people’s movement/coalition, especially when Democrats have an advantage of one in the Senate. And that didn’t happen anywhere on the scale needed. That said, the battle isn’t over.
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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.
