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I finally had time to listen to the Bulwark's turkey podcast with Sarah, Mona, Amanda and Charlie yesterday.

Whichever one of you hasn't seen Scrooged yet needs to put everything else down and watch it immediately. It is the best modern Christmas movie (and yes, Sarah, Diehard is a Christmas movie).

Ok, but my main bit of contention is not understanding how all of you rightly point out that Democrats should be acting more urgently about protecting our elections while simultaneously, still, lauding Manchin for being so awesome when he is the singular reason why Democrats will not be able to pass any election reform through his and Sinema's refusal to adjust the filibuster to allow a vote to come to the Senate floor. Therefore I can only conclude that for Manchinema-stans blocking "progressive" legislation overrides protecting elections since that seems to be the reason some of you like him so much.

When the Big Steal finally happens in 2024 it will be Manchin's fault and those who supported him because if he wanted to allow it, the Democrats would have passed election reform months ago.

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Democrats have the slimmest of a majority and a radical agenda. 2020 and 2024 will be red waves in part because Democrats ran like they had a leftist mandate and not an American mandate.

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My only suggestion is to change "American" mandate to "Popular" mandate.

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The problem with "popular" is that it relies on polls done primarily by the same corporate media that told us that in the 2016 election Hillary Clinton would win in a landslide.

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Perhaps, but radical ideas both left and right are all American, the question is whether they enjoy wide support.

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When the policies of the BBB (ugh, hate that name) are polled they enjoy much popular support often in the 60+% range.

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What's radical about it? Their policy priorities are actually pretty popular--far more popular than yours. It's all about frustration that they haven't conquered Covid and its side effects.

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"What's radical about it?" LOL. "Pretty popular" LOL-2

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In other words, you haven't a clue as to how to answer, so you respond with ridicule. Cute. The polling data is pretty clear; people like what the Democrats are proposing.

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Voters are always supportive of more "free" stuff as long as someone else has to pay for it. The Dem corporate media is not explaining the consequences of the free stuff. Those that understand the consequences don't support it.

If you believe the polls then you should find this one interesting: https://news.gallup.com/poll/356591/congress-approval-lowest-2021-democrats-turn-negative.aspx

Democrat approval has plummeted... but mirrors the last time Democrats controlled all three branches of the federal government. So how does that correlate with the claim that voters like the dog food peddled by Democrats?

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Apparently I attract the horses ass.

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