Well, eliminating the filibuster is too extreme, you’ll just have to vote harder.
The Ds didn’t just decide not to kill the filibuster because it was too extreme, the goddamn billionaires BOUGHT Manchin and Sinema which killed that effort in the cradle. It’s already bad enough, you don’t need bend the truth.
Bending the truth is pretending that Biden didn’t insist that the filibuster was important and refused to call for it to be abolished for a full 2 years into his presidency. He spent the first two years convincing himself he was a brilliant negotiator who was going to break through partisan gridlock, and when he finally realized he couldn’t get voting rights through (because of course Republicans don’t want voting rights) he finally called for it to be abolished…sort of, because he still wanted the verbal filibuster to be an option. Probably because he watched too much West Wing and thought it would make a cool Mr. Smith Goes to Washington-like scene.
The Ds didn’t just decide not to kill the filibuster because it was too extreme, the goddamn billionaires BOUGHT Manchin and Sinema which killed that effort in the cradle. It’s already bad enough, you don’t need bend the truth.
Bending the truth is pretending that Biden didn’t insist that the filibuster was important and refused to call for it to be abolished for a full 2 years into his presidency. He spent the first two years convincing himself he was a brilliant negotiator who was going to break through partisan gridlock, and when he finally realized he couldn’t get voting rights through (because of course Republicans don’t want voting rights) he finally called for it to be abolished…sort of, because he still wanted the verbal filibuster to be an option. Probably because he watched too much West Wing and thought it would make a cool Mr. Smith Goes to Washington-like scene.