How The Establishment Media Aids And Abets The Democratic Party & Their Radical Agenda

  You know, I find it rather odd that the mainstream establishment media in this land finds nothing better to do other than try to shove the radical agenda of the Democratic Party down American throats. It's already obvious how much they hate Donald Trump, our 45th president, so much in fact that they are willing to sell their souls in order to discredit him from running for president again. But this particular article from Esquire magazine written by a man named Jack Holmes really struck me as cogent proof of how low the media will stoop to push the radical leftist agenda of the Democratic Party:

The Filibuster Is Made-Up and Stupid, and So Is the Made-Up, Stupid History to Justify It

Jack Holmes Tue, January 11, 2022

    The filibuster was created when Cain and Abel were locked in those fraternal spats about who'd made a better sacrifice to God. The filibuster dates back to Sumerian debates over how to regulate the trade of obsidian and lapis lazuli in the Fertile Crescent. The filibuster can be traced to the ancient Roman custom of filibusta, wherein the tribune of the plebs could block a Senate initiative he feared would add to inflation. The filibuster emerged during the Hundred Years' War as England and France each demanded any peace treaty receive the backing of a supermajority of noblemen in both countries. There are cave drawings at Lascaux that depict the very first use of the filibuster. These backstories are only marginally less true than the one Senator Joe Manchin offered on Monday: The filibuster has been "the tradition of the Senate here in 232 years now," he told Chad Pergram of Fox News. "We need to be very cautious what we do...That's what we've always had for 232 years. That's what makes us different than any place else in the world." 

    

    No, the filibuster is not 232 years old. It is not as old as American democracy because the Founders did not write it into the Constitution. It emerged, essentially by accident, because they failed to outline a constitutional procedure for ending debate on a bill. They had no interest in governance by supermajority. Its first use was 50 years after the founding. Many of its uses after that were very bad. The Senate was already an undemocratic body that is now supercharged to enshrine the tyranny of a minority. And the filibuster has been changed many, many times. Recently, Senate Republicans led by Mitch McConnell changed the filibuster to make it easier for them to get their Supreme Court nominees through. Even more recently—like, last month—the Senate made an exception to the filibuster to raise the debt ceiling. Yet somehow, people routinely get away with casting the filibuster as an essential building block of American democracy that verges on an essential virtue in human nature. All of this is completely made up, along with all of the ridiculous procedural workarounds that have sprung up around the filibuster: reconciliation, the Parliamentarian, the Byrd rule. All of it is made up and stupid. It's a tool of obstruction, but it's also cover that allows lawmakers to avoid actually voting on policy proposals.

    

     If the bill never comes up for a vote because it's been blocked using the filibuster, you don't have a record of voting against shoring up voting rights. It's not unlike the eagerness that members of Congress have shown to fork over the legislature's war powers to the Executive Branch in order to avoid having to own any of our endless military interventions abroad. It is a device abused by cowards to avoid accountability in office. If you're against the voting-rights bill, or the Build Back Better act, then vote against those bills. Don't prevent the bills ever getting a vote.

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    So, in short, according to the diatribe of this leftist hypocrite, we are to overturn the filibuster rules in the United States Senate because, according to this radical article, they don't exist, nor ever have for that matter. Yet, why is it the Democrats have always used the filibuster rules of the Senate to block Republican nominees and legislation, and yet not one soul in the mainstream media ever once cries foul about the filibuster rules then? It seems pretty obvious that whenever Republicans exercise the filibuster rules in the United States Senate, the media start raising all kinds of hell about it. Yet when the Democrats do the very same thing, the media is literally silent as church mice about it. 

    Indeed, when Democrats used the filibuster rules in the Senate to block Donald Trump's agenda, as well as his cabinet and judicial nominees, the mainstream media endlessly praised them for doing so. Yet now that the Republicans are using the filibuster rules in the Senate to block the radical leftist agenda of Joe Biden and the Democrats, they are called everything from 'enemies of democracy' to 'insurrectionists' by the mainstream media. 

    So, it seems that in the eyes of the mainstream media, it's one thing when the Democrats use the filibuster rules in the Senate, but quite another when the Republicans do the same thing. How very absurd, if not very hypocritical, that truly sounds to an average American citizen like me.