The Senate must eliminate the filibuster to confront far-left institutions
Under the filibuster, the Senate can only act when legislation is overwhelmingly popular, in the current case of Save America Actwhich enjoyed widespread popular support, even then.
When the Senate gives up this power, the power does not disappear, but rather is vested in non-governmental institutions that we are supposed to trust are working for the benefit of the country and its people.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Majority Leader John Thune (Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images; Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
So, for example, the Without Limits Save America Act Mail-in ballotsNon-governmental entities, such as Mark Zuckerberg and Meta in 2020, are free to influence elections by providing mail-in ballot assistance, but only in politically approved areas.
In an era when we have reliable educational institutions, homeless outreach, or election monitoring, this may be a good thing, perhaps even admirable. But we do not live in such an era. In our time, progressives have become far left as well It captured almost every institution The Senate willingly hands over its power to.
In the 1720s, England had almost no government-run prisons. Instead, the jailers were bought out, and the jailer would benefit from the prisoners’ fees.
In 1729, an architect named Robert Castle was thrown into debtors’ prison, but he was unable to pay the jailer’s fees. So he took him into the room of a man who was suffering from smallpox, and he fell ill and died.
Anger ensued, even Sir Robert WalpoleArguably the first Prime Minister of England who favored indirect administration over direct government control of institutions, he began to see the need for state-run prisons.
Was Georgian England’s flawed non-government prison system so different from our federal government that handed millions of dollars to… Fraudulent day care centers in Minneapolis Or no-shows at nursing home locations in Los Angeles?
Even without fraud, our leading institutions have had incredible negative impacts in areas like the transgender movement, where basically every one of them agreed that children should be subjected to surgery and hormones to change their sex.
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It was only after executive orders, state legislatures, and courts confronted the transgender craze that the fever began to subside, and now hospitals are quietly removing those “services.”
It was the governmentby the people, who put under the control of the shadow government of far-left institutions that no one ever voted for.
Castle wasn’t the first person to be abused or die in England’s very old private prison system, so why did his case suddenly cause so much uproar and ultimately change?
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Well, about 25 years ago, something hit the scene in London newspaper. Suddenly, not just the educated Londoner, but the man who heard the news read aloud in the café or pub, had an immediate window into corruption.
Likewise, 25 years ago, we saw that The appearance of news on the InternetSuddenly the gatekeepers were no longer able to hide the evils of the institutions on whose boards they often sat.
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Suddenly, stories of voter fraud, bus cancellations, or ridiculous DEI lessons in our schools can no longer be covered up. The rot at the heart of our institutions is plain to see, just as the cruelty of England’s prisons was 300 years ago.
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Today, the Senate Majority Leader John ThuneR.D., faces a choice similar to that of Walpole in the eighteenth century. He would much rather keep the federal government out of Americans’ lives, but the institutions that operate in their lives are broken and corrupt.
While it is the House, not the Senate, that is supposed to be the instrument of the popular will in our system, the Senate is not intended to be a permanent barrier to the will of the House of Representatives even in the face of overwhelming popular support.
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Sadly, this is what the filibuster has become today, an excuse for lawmakers to do nothing while nongovernmental institutions continue to tighten their grip on American society.
There may have been a time when procrastination made sense, but now is not that time. Now is the time for a popular government to take back power from our broken far-left institutions.
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