The filibuster, which is essentially a 60-vote threshold to pass legislation in the Senate, is a well-intentioned tool intended to protect the rights of states, markets, and individuals from excessive federal legislation. But it must be abandoned now.
Under the filibuster, the Senate can only act if a piece of legislation is overwhelmingly popular, and in the current case of the Save America Act, which has broad public support, not even then.
When the Senate relinquishes this power, the power does not disappear, but rests with non-governmental institutions that we must trust to work in the interests of the country and its people.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Senate Democrats are opposing the effort by Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D. to avoid a partial government shutdown. (Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images; Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
So without the Save America Act’s restrictions on mail-in ballots, non-governmental entities, like Mark Zuckererg and Meta in 2020, are free to influence the election by offering mail-in ballot assistance, but only in their politically sanctioned areas.
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At a time when we had faith in institutions of education, homeless shelters, or election oversight, this might be fine, even admirable. But we don’t live in such an age. In our time, far-left progressives have captured almost every institution to which the Senate willingly hands over its power.
In the 1820s, England had virtually no government-run prisons. Instead, guards were purchased and the warden would benefit from the prisoners’ fees.
In 1729, an architect named Robert Castell was thrown into debtors’ prison, but was unable to pay the director’s fee. He was put in a room with a man who had smallpox, contracted the disease and died.
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Outrage followed and even Sir Robert Walpole, perhaps England’s first Prime Minister, who preferred indirect management to direct government control of institutions, came to see the need for state prisons.
Was Georgian England’s flawed, non-governmental prison system really so different from our own federal government handing over millions of dollars to fraudulent daycare centers in Minneapolis or no-show hospice care sites in LA?
Even beyond fraud, our leading institutions have had incredibly negative consequences in areas like the trans movement, where virtually everyone agreed that children should undergo surgery and hormones to change their gender.
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It wasn’t until executive orders, state legislatures, and courts rose up against the trans craze that the fever began to cool, and now hospitals are quietly cutting those “services.”
It was the government, by and of the people, that reined in the shadow government of far-left institutions that no one had ever voted for.
Castell wasn’t the first person to be abused or die in the very old private English prison system, so why did his case suddenly cause such a furore and ultimately so much change?
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Well, about 25 years earlier something called a newspaper had appeared on the scene in London. Not only the literate Londoner, but the man who had read the news in the coffeehouse or tavern, had an immediate window into corruption.
Similarly, 25 years ago we saw the rise of online news, and suddenly the gatekeepers could no longer hide the evil of the institutions on whose boards they often sat.
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Suddenly, stories about voter fraud, or detransition, or absurd DEI classes in our schools couldn’t be glossed over. The rot at the core of our institutions was laid bare for all to see, just as the brutality of England’s prisons was three hundred years ago.
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Today, Senate Majority Leader John Thune faces a choice similar to Walpole’s in the 18th century. He would much rather keep the federal government out of Americans’ lives, but the institutions that are in their lives are broken and corrupt.
While the House of Representatives, not the Senate, is intended to be the vehicle of the people’s will in our system, the Senate is not intended to be a perpetual roadblock to the will of the people, even in the face of massive popular support.
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Unfortunately, that is what the filibuster has become today, an excuse for our lawmakers to do nothing while non-governmental institutions continue to tighten their grip on American society.
There may have once been a time when the filibuster made sense, but now it doesn’t. Now it is time for the people’s government to take back power from our broken, far-left institutions.
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