It's more that their constituents are exposed to a constant stream of propaganda which favors fossil fuels and the destruction they cause.
There is no real left-wing messaging machine that compares and can tell people about the harm they're experiencing or the benefits of renewables.
The Republican effort to repeal it is (rightly) going to to be a real disaster, costing us not just a liveable future, but a lot of jobs in the near term.
BBB became the Inflation Reduction Act. Its what Manchin would vote for.
The most conservative Democrat is far more conservative than you or I.
For sure. But I'll appreciate seeing it happen now instead of never
Unfortunately gumming up the Senate is about the only tool a minority has
They couldn't during 2021-2022 when Democrats had 50 seats in the Senate plus the VP. You could pass what the most conservative Democrat was willing to vote for then, so long as it was a budget reconciliation bill.
A bribe is a bribe is a bribe, even if we can only see one of the quid and the quo.
There aren't enough Democrats in the Senate to actually stop them. Just slow things down so much that the Republicans need to pick and choose which ones they care enough to push through.
They did do things to gum up the Senate, which is exactly the kind of thing you're describing. Schumer is saying he's going to. And I appreciate that, even if he didn't do it before.
Gumming up the Senate is about the limit of what the Democrats have the votes to do. If we wanted them to have real power, we needed to vote more of them into Congress
Most of them will, but it only takes a handful who won't to sink the bill.
Even there, Manchin was a major problem. Almost all the Democrats wanted stuff like an expanded child tax credit, but Manchin announced that if parents had money, they'd all go out and buy meth, so he insisted on its removal from the bill before he would vote for it.