This confirms my believe that the average American is a moron. Little or no understanding of the 60 vote majority rule. Even more distressing than the average moron is the level of idiot moron rat congress critters.
When West Virginia's Joe Manchin closed the door on eliminating the legislative filibuster this week, promising not to "weaken or eliminate" the 60-vote threshold, he "dashed" the "dreams" of Democrats, according to The New York Times.
Hypocrisy is nothing new in Washington, but it takes a preternatural shamelessness to have participated in over 300 filibusters, as Democrats did in the past few years, and then one day turn around and treat the procedure as an odious racist relic that threatens "democracy."
But this is an emergency, norm-breakers will tell you. Isn't it always? Senator Jacky Rosen, after a quick reversal of position, told The Washington Post that she would nuke the procedure only "in the case of protecting democracy." Of course, if we adopted the Democrats' evolving standard of "voting rights," then we'd be forced to treat every election before 2020's free-for-all as illegitimate.
If Democrats truly believe that voter-integrity laws in Georgia or Texas are unconstitutional and a threat to democracy, they should take those states to court, where these issues could be adjudicated, rather than trying to upend the system in a power grab.
https://townhall.com/columnists/davidharsanyi/2021/06/11/the-democrats-filibuster-con-n2590832
