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In A HANDMAID'S TALE, the slide into paternal Biblical autocracy was in small steps. Just like in Texas.
Then America split in two, creating Gilead, where women were stripped of power altogether, and severely punished for resisting.
Then America split in two, creating Gilead, where women were stripped of power altogether, and severely punished for resisting.
23 states stand at the ready to join Texas in banning abortion without exception, restrict the telling of true history in America, stripping away gay and trans rights, and forcing Christian laws and prayer into the schools.
Those same states are passing laws to overturn the popular vote, to install lawmakers that conform to their Biblical expectations. That will happen in 2022 if Federal protections are not put in place.
Hence the immediacy of carving out the filibuster
Hence the immediacy of carving out the filibuster
There are 22 states with two Dem Senators, 22 states with two GOP Senators, and 6 states with 1 of each.
50/50, right? But...
DYK there were 83M votes cast to elect the 50 Dem Senators & only 63M votes cast to elect the 50 GOP Senators?
Food for thought. #EndTheFilibusterNow
50/50, right? But...
DYK there were 83M votes cast to elect the 50 Dem Senators & only 63M votes cast to elect the 50 GOP Senators?
Food for thought. #EndTheFilibusterNow
And yes, the original purpose of the Senate is different than that of the House, which intended to be the body with proportional representation.
But this shit ain’t workin...my point above just underscores how lopsided & undemocratic the filibuster is as a tool.
But this shit ain’t workin...my point above just underscores how lopsided & undemocratic the filibuster is as a tool.
And yes I know Sanders & King are Independents. I only have 280 characters to make a point, which still stands regardless.
.@LeaderMcConnell: the filibuster started as a tool to uphold slavery and then became a mechanism to block civil rights legislation. It was created to preserve slavery against the march of progress and a growing majority of both states and Americans who wanted to abolish slavery.
The filibuster did not exist until the mid-19th century; well after the Founding Fathers. James Madison was an ardent opponent of even the notion of it. The individual credited with the introduction of the filibuster was was John C. Calhoun, the father of the Confederacy.
Calhoun invented the filibuster for the specific purpose of empowering slave owners and suppressing what was gaining traction as a superior economic model in the North. So he started to innovate forms of obstruction that became the filibuster. It was 100% rooted in racism.
