While I cannot claim to speak for the
Democratic Party, as a Democrat I feel compelled to apologize to the
American people. I am sorry as all hell that we Democrats are unable
to find a Marvel superhero to insert the stick of dynamite needed to
blow Kyrsten Sinema's head out of her special interest owned ass,
and/or to insert the stick of dynamite needed to blow Joe Manchin's
head out of his Koch bros owned ass. News flash for voters: it is
not Joe Biden or the Democratic Party that is failing to protect
voting rights from the attacks of the American Fascist Party (AKA the
Republican Party). There are two Senators registered as Democrats
(Sinema and Manchin) who have joined Republican senators in refusing
to protect voter rights. All of the senators refusing to pass the
voter rights acts are indicative of a systemic problem, i.e. the
influence money and special interests have on politicians of both
parties.
Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema are
either lying when they say they support the voter rights bills or
they are both idiots! If you believe in the right to vote (the most
fundamental right in any democracy) you will do what is necessary to
protect that right; it is that simple! But both Manchin and Synema say that traditional senate
rules, in this case the filibuster, are more important than
protecting the right to vote. I think the absurdity of saying that
the filibuster is more important than the right to vote is self
evident. Without the right to vote we no longer have a democracy!
Furthermore, the filibuster rule in its present form has only been
around since 1975. So the rule was changed fairly recently, and not
for the better. One only has to look at how Moscow Mitch used to
filibuster to clog up the system like a malignant bowel obstruction
during the Obama administration to realize how destructive the
filibuster is in its present form!
Wake up America! Big pharma wants the
filibuster to prevent the passage of any act that would allow
Medicare to negotiate drug prices, and other special interests want
to keep the filibuster in order to thwart laws and acts designed to
protect consumers and/or make big companies pay their fair share of
taxes. Manchin, Synema and the Republicans are choosing the rule of
money over democracy and the rule of the people. The only way you
are going to protect the right to vote and take back your country is
to work like hell to defeat the Republicans and the few Democrats who
choose money over country! Needless to say I do not feel sorry for
the voters punishing Blanch Lincoln because of her opposition to
public option, and what she did was not nearly as bad as what Manchin
and Synema are doing. The big tent is a fine thing. We should
tolerate differences when it comes to policies and legislation, but
there can be no compromise or tolerance for any undermining our
democracy! Anyone who will not protect the right to vote has no
business being in our government.
