(#4543) The filibuster reckoning

      As the pressure mounts over the weekend toward ending the filibuster for at least a voting rights bill the harder it will be for Manchin and Sinema to defend keeping the filibuster without an exception. All eyes will be on them as we get closer to a time when the need for voting rights legislation passes us by. We democrats have the power to pass voting rights legislation without the help of a single republican and that is needed since since not a single republican has backed the policy of protecting voting rights. All they want to do is decrease democrats targeted voter turnout so that they can win elections without the will of all the people.
     Did you hear that in your head when you read that? They want to win elections without having the will of the people behind them. So why would we democrats allow them to do that to protect a senate rule that has no good intent behind it other than to deny the majority of the right to govern? That is our current dilemma in the democratic party. We democrats have the votes to change the filibuster if only to protect voting rights and we are struggling to get all 50 democratic leaning senators on board. If we don't do something now to get voting rights passed then the likelihood of us giving all Americans eligible the right to vote will disappear.
     This isn't even so much about democrats holding power as it is about the people being able to vote without having their right to vote taken from them. The idea that a senate rule allegedly established to protect minority party rights in the senate is of a greater importance than the absolute right of every eligible citizen to keep their right to vote is an absurd argument to defend yet that is what at least 2 democratic senators are implying. The more the pressure on them to face the reality of the republican party openly trying to deny voting rights to our fellow citizens the better. It really begins this weekend and should build to a point where the last defense of protecting the filibuster against the right to vote is obliterated!