The US Senate as a functioning legislative body seems about to be torn apart by a Republican power play to end the filibuster rule. They want to return to "the traditional roots" of the Senate. You know, the days when members took to going after each other with canes.
Well, it doesn't surprise me, since they seem to want to turn the clock back in every other respect. It's the Gilded Age all over again. Of course, those were also the days of fiery populism and the rise of the labor union movement. Out of adversity--what?
These are dangerous times. I know that I'm the forty-thousandth person to say that, but I'm not sure that the political construct of democracy based on fairness and reason can survive. Maybe it's time to rip up the social contract and begin again. Where's Joe Hill when you need him?
1 comment:
You write good stuff....which blue state are you writing from?
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