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Oct 29, 2021Liked by The Coop Scoop

Don't forget immigration, caravans, millions of poor who will, acc to R talking pts, change America, taking billions in welfare, voting Dem, etc etc For months this story has run on Fox and right wing media, pointing at 'them' and Dems giving 'them' open border access and $$, 'reparations' payments being the latest Tucker claim, and this bill of claims will be near the top of the '22 R campaign, hammered nonstop in every state ... >This is why Republicans are campaigning on demagogic emotional vibes like the Big Lie, the imaginary threat of CRT in schools and masks (!) ...

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Sounds like it's time to head to Portugal. Such dire straits with no solutions. All is lost. Thanks Coop.

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Thank you for finding out more of the specifics of the bill.

Small thing: When I try to share this, I get a link to a totally different article about Afghanistan.

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Democrats have a massive normalcy bias problem, like the one that kept Jewish families in Germany after Reichstag, etc.

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Biden overestimates his own ability to pitch to us, he needs plenty more advocates, he looks like his house just got blown away in an Oklahoma twister, stalk of straw in his mouth. I like everthing about what he professes to want in BBB.

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Hi Marc, really interesting piece. I'm totally with you on free speech--remember when the liberal-left used to be all for it? About ditching racial and gender justice for class-only, which is what I take you to be calling for, what about the unfortunate fact that the WWC support politicians who oppose the very items that would improve their situation? I'm thinking of Medicaid expansion, increased money for schools,libraries, and so forth, clean air and water,increased minimum wage, food stamps , making it easier to join unions etc . Perhaps they are culture warriors too -- Jesus, guns, white supremacy, male dominance, anti-mask, Trump is King, all that. It's not an accident that the states of the Confederacy are deep deep red. Or that the most solid Republican voters are evangelical/fundamentalist protestants. There have been some Dem politicians who've run on class issues in red states. But they don't win. I thought Thomas Frank was way too simple when he argued that Kansas was red because the Dems had abandoned the WWC. It was really, as Ellen Willis wrote, the social changes that began in the sixties that turned rural voters off, including the Dems becoming the party of women and black people. Frank thought his Kansans weren't racist because after all Kansas had very few black people. As if they didn't watch TV!

Any way, lots to think about in your piece. Going to watch The Closer now.

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Dems should fashion legislation for each single item in the BBB. Force Senate and House Republicans to vote against seniors, children, parents, taxing the rich, moving toward clean energy jobs, etc.

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This is almost too depressing to share with my FB constituency. On point, as usual.

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