The Time is Now!
Like the proverbial frog in boiling water, the American people have slowly been cooking from financial stress, to poor health, to a failing democracy. Oh, and also a cooking planet!
As we’ve noted countless times before, the voting rights bills and infrastructure plan are popular policy, and sound politics. Democrats would have to be fools not to pass such legislation, and validate the control of government granted to them by the people. Yet as negotiations around critical legislation are coming to a head with only a few weeks left to act, it’s unclear what the future holds. The passage of these bills will make or break not just the Biden presidency, but perhaps the country as well.
This past weekend, some of the progressive lawmakers in Congress finally seemed to start noticing the heat, and feel compelled to get us out of the cooking pot. Bernie Sanders has forcefully come out against the floated $3T infrastructure plan, still touting his own, much bolder and better $6T proposal. AOC, made the media circuit, saying loudly and clearly, that progressive lawmakers in the house will reject any slimmed down bill will Republicans that doesn’t include a reconciliation bill with priorities the American people want, like climate action, and “human infrastructure.”
Support: 58%
This effort is a welcome sight. It is good to finally see progressives try to start wielding power on behalf the of American people, at critical moments when it can make a difference. Whether these actions are happening in time to save the infrastructure and voting rights bills and our fragile democracy with them, has yet to be determined, but what is absolutely clear, is that even good-hearted lawmakers can’t do it alone.
If we are to get any of these bills passed it is going to take people power and organizing from the outside, to complement the few good lawmakers on the inside. To that end you can do three things:
Contact you legislators about these bills: HR1, HR 4 and the linked infrastructure bills. Tell them them Must support these bills!
Phonebank into critical states like WV and AZ to encourage citizens to pressure recalcitrant Senators like Manchin and Sinema.
Join us every week to build economic power with DSOT and break the stranglehold corporations have on our government, giving space for legislation the people want!
So join us each Tuesday as we build an economic cudgel to the fight for democracy and representative government. Together, we are larger than the donor class, and we can outlast them, until we get a government that represents all of us, not just a few, and our democracy is no longer under threat.
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