Thread by @RevDrBarber

The BBB will pay for itself if Manchin would stop pushing tax cuts! As @POTUS said, “17 Nobel Prize winners in economics have said my plan will ‘ease inflationary pressures.’ And my plan does this w/o raising taxes on those making less than $400K or adding to the federal debt.”

Manchin is just a coward and a liar. Why won’t he just say, “I don’t care about the poor and low-wealth people in my state or the nation. I’m owned by my corporate funders, and I follow whatever the Wall Street Journal says”?

If Manchin had integrity, he’d sit w/ the 17 Nobel-winning economists, but he won’t b/c he’s a man of weak character who tries to fashion himself as a savior of the ppl. But like his dad & uncle before him, he’s a WV con artist politician who’ll let poor of his own state suffer.

But Manchin’s not to blame alone. Every org that claims to care for civil rights, etc. that refused to mobilize in WV & put pressure on him but chose to let him operate in the back room, has allowed him the time & freedom to run his games. Power concedes nothing w/o a demand.

Trying to cuddle & be soft on Manchin was never a winning strategy. That’s not how we won civil rights, voting rights, labor rights, social security, etc. A hands-off, back-room approach was never going to work.

Also, other Dems are hiding behind him. He’s just the front man.

But we still have time. Join us this coming #MoralMonday 12/13 in Washington, DC, & turn loose your nonviolent direct action power with members of the @WestVirginiaPPC & don’t let up! Anything else enables Manchin rather than challenging him.

actionnetwork.org/events/moral-m…