We need to take to the streets for the John Lewis voting rights bill (#4438)

      Well it seems that the people of America are going to have to force republican politicians to make a decision, either support voting rights or pay heavily in 2022. With Joe Manchin still resisting doing the correct thing for democrats to move on voting rights legislation the next step for we democrats is to take to the streets. Even if it means we boycott and disrupt our own recovering economy. There are just a few moments in time when doing what is correct will actually solve a myriad amount of difficult problems. Well getting the federal voting rights bill passed into law is one such moment.
     That it has to come to this while we are still battling against the Covid-19 virus is unfortunate and unnecessary. If Joe Manchin would just stop for a moment and consider what former senator Robert Byrd would do in this moment he would realize the transformation Robert evolved to from filibustering the 1964 civil rights act to supporting voting rights. Joe Manchin needs to heed his mentor's progress and emulate it. Until we can get Joe Manchin to sign onto the John Lewis voting rights bill, of which all 49 other senators from the democratic caucus have done, we will not see anything done on the crucial protection of our most sacred democratic right.
     There appears to be no republican senator who would join democrats in voting for the John Lewis voting rights bill. So it will be up to Joe Manchin to decide if he is for protecting voting rights and if he is willing to vote to adjust the senate rules in order to pass it on a majority vote. No matter how many times I try to understand Joe Manchin's position on maintaining the filibuster I cannot reasonably conclude that his argument for it is valid. The old senate would maybe apply but this new senate is not willing to be cordial and productive toward protecting voting rights and instead they are for obstructing and diminishing voting rights. So the Joe Manchin ideal of bipartisanship is not a real thing and only exists in the Joe Manchin illogical take on our current reality.