(#4561) It was a month ago that republicans agreed to a bipartisan outline for a bill

      This is a perfect example of how republicans are getting to be experts at dragging negotiations along until they don't agree anymore. This bipartisan bill should have been completed nearly a month ago yet here we are no deal yet to be found. The media has quit covering it as the insanity that it is as if it were just nothing to do about nothing. But those of us who are sick and tired of republican antics are still sounding the alarm about just leaving the republican party behind and getting things done instead. I know some things we democrats are fighting each other over but there are many things that we are not and can get things done as quickly as possible.
     Yet the elephant in the room is the voting rights protections bills. Without some movement from our own democratic caucus on removing the filibuster or a carve out of the filibuster, the idea that we will remain a democracy will end! That is a fact! When eligible citizens are denied the right to vote that is not a democracy that is authoritarianism. Get ready for it because we are still not seeing the urgency needed to change the fucking senate rule that will kill democracy for the rest of our lifetimes. I used to admire the fourth estate, the media, for keeping things real but all they are doing now is sheepishly following the liars and haters with indifference.
     I am older and will not survive the next 20 to 30 years and I have no children of my own to give a better world to. But I still fight for you and your children's future despite me having little time left and no direct line child's future in this fight. Because I learned a long time ago that a better world is earned not given and until the rest of us join in with those of us who will not let the assholes of the world prevail, the assholes of the world will prevail. The time is running short and for we democrats that means we will either stand for democracy or we will let it crumble before our eyes with plenty of warnings about the crumbling and still little to no action!