Editors’ Note: The following letter to Senator Joe Manchin, Democrat of West Virginia, is to inform him of the historic moment he governs in and that the future of our Republic is linked to the decisions he makes in coming days to weeks. There has been ‘news’ of him possibly leaving the Democrat party given his reluctance to support the transformational and very un-American socialist legislation being pushed by Biden, Schumer, Sanders and Pelosi and the radical left in the U.S. Congress. This critical topic and threat to our nation has been frequently explored in The Prickly Pear and will continue to be. It appears that Manchin has increasingly little in common with his fellow Democrat Senators and Representatives and, along with Senator Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), has been the obstacle for them to pass their legislation with a 50/50 Senate split and a three vote majority for Speaker Pelosi in the U.S. House. He is Senator from a deeply red state and his label as a Democrat has puzzled many of us for a long time. Please feel free to copy and paste this letter. It can be sent or emailed to him at the addresses following the letter and also listed in our TAKE ACTION site below the daily FEATURED ARTICLE. In addition, his office in Washington and those in West Virginia can be called to express these sentiments. Please contact him and attempt to convince him that his place is with liberty loving Americans who do not want a radical transformation of our Republic, our nation and our way of life.

Dear Senator Manchin,

Americans are intensely following the battle being waged in Washington to pass the reconciliation bill dubbed ‘Build Back Better’. This legislation involves a massive increase in federal spending and hugely increased debt to radically transform our beloved America. The American work ethic, our fundamental liberties and our economic strength (fundamental to a strong national defense) would be permanently damaged and would lead to an unsustainable level of citizen dependency on government. The latter, we suspect, is its intent to alter the voter patterns in future generations as is the uncontrolled illegal alien invasion triggered upon President Biden’s assumption of the POTUS office last January. Yes Senator, this is the talk out here in the real world where Americans live, work, pay their taxes, raise families, and deal with issues like rapidly increasing inflation, burgeoning crime, the content of their children’s curricula in the public schools, and the corruption in federal offices (e.g., the DOJ, the FBI and Merrick Garland) impacting and threatening regular folks on the ground, and a host of other worrisome and very negative trends since January 2021.

I believe, Senator, that you are very well informed of the above and it brings me to the point of my correspondence with you. I have followed your work in the Senate since 2010. Your committee assignments on Energy and Natural Resources,  Appropriations, and Armed Services all indicate that your knowledge and work on issues of great impact to your constituents in West Virginia and, importantly, to all U.S. citizens are in enormous conflict with the increasingly radical party you belong to. Your state is deeply red, its economy is tightly tied to the American energy industry and your claims about not allowing radical legislation to destroy the American work ethic and increase government dependency are diametrically opposed to the ideological and cultural departure of what once was a very American Democrat party. I have thought of you on occasion more like a Scoop Jackson (supporting the military) and a Daniel Patrick Moynihan (alerting us to increasing poverty with the increase in fatherless homes requiring welfare). The real question for so many Americans, being voiced frequently out here on Main Street is:  Why the hell is Joe Manchin still a Democrat in 2021? Your party is now radical and can legitimately be labeled as godless and oriented to socialism. It is frequently against our police and is transforming the U.S. military in a perverse way. It is damaging children throughout America with the sexualization of our kids in public schools and pushing a racist curriculum with CRT. Unless I am very mistaken, these historical deviations do not define you. Why in God’s name do you remain a Democrat?

I am the first to aggressively criticize the Republican Party. It has enabled much of your party’s behavior and legislative activity and has lots of faults. It is part of a deep state that is more and more anathema to the citizens out here by the day. That said, it does not want to exchange the Republic and its founding principles for a socialist model, at least in theory. You have a chance to change history – your wise counsel to your party for a “strategic pause” in this insane legislative juggernaut without any semblance of a Democrat mandate was well received. Schumer, Pelosi and Sanders along with those controlling the President know that it is now or never. Why allow this legislation to be passed at a lower price tag when in reality it is similar legislation that permanently creates the same law at a price to be extended with increasing dependency in our population in years to come? You know this to be true in terms of how entitlements work throughout the last seventy to eighty years in America.

Bernie Sanders is an Independent “caucusing” with the Democrats. This should not be the profile you would assume if you depart from your party as an “Independent caucusing with the Democrats”. Please think hard on the good you would do for our nation by rejecting the Democrat agenda, leaving your party and being a force for good for the Republican Party in great need of a courageous leader who governs with principles and stands with the fundamental values that are American and West Virginian and that you seem to express as core values as a U.S. Senator.

Respectfully yours,

John R. Ammon, MD

Phoenix, Arizona

Senator Joe Manchin, III (West Virginia)

306 Hart Senate Office Building

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