“The SAVE America Act is election reform and rollback of wokeism-run-amok that will ‘save America’ if Democrats would just stop filibustering it.” That narrative can be misleading. So let us dissect it.
The “SAVE Act” is really a bucket. Into it, Republican strategists threw voting procedures and other measures where Democrats have gone kamikaze to please their base. A majority of Democrats say voting should require a verifiable ID.
Also, most Americans doubt a person simply “asserting they feel woman-like,” contrary to all genetic evidence, should get naked with girls in their locker rooms, shower with them, compete against them in contact sports, and condemn to “racist hell” anyone who objects.
But it wasn’t the “stroke of political genius” some in D.C. thought to bucket these issues for a vote just before the 2026 midterms and make Democrats crucify themselves. Voters are smarter than D.C. assumes. To those for whom these are serious issues, using them in a political “stunt” to boost re-election isn’t considered a virtue.
In ancient times (meaning at least 20 years ago), if Republicans tried such a stunt, Democrats would simply counter with a voter ID and integrity in women’s sports alternative supported by an even broader cross-section of America. That they cannot do that is part of Democrats’ dysfunctionality, and a topic for a separate discussion.
In the meantime, facing a vote designed to slaughter Democrats in purple states, Senate Donkeys have grasped for ways to “not vote.” So, they threatened to filibuster.
But that term, “filibuster,” is widely misunderstood, even in the United States Senate. What people miss is that a Senate was added to the Constitution to protect the one, the few, the minority, the exception. Consider this example:
In the 1700s, Americans of all backgrounds enjoyed a good malt beverage. But malt barley didn’t grow in New England (in soils better suited for cranberries), nor did it grow in the South (where tobacco and cotton were king). Malt barley grew in the mid-Atlantic, the DelMarVa region, key to the economy of one particular state, Delaware.
If 12 states decided the solution to the Revolutionary War debt was to tax malt barley, the vote in the Senate might be 24 to 2. The price of beer would hardly be affected since American brews still had to be cheaper than “imported European” beer.
The United States Senate was designed to protect Delaware in this situation. The two Senators from that state could “talk to death” any such lopsided attempt to make one state pay for the debts of all the rest. Every Senator knew this and also knew it protected them all. For the first 127 years, no rule could force a Senator to stop talking.
In 1917, the same year the Bolshevik Revolution led Marxism to triumph in Russia, the judgment that “the good of the many outweighs the good of the one” prevailed in the United States Senate. Senate Rule 22 was created to allow a supermajority of Senators to shut down debate.
In order to get the Save America Act up for a vote, some have called to go a step further, eliminating the “supermajority” requirement. A simple majority could decide “we’ve heard enough.” This would lock in “majority rules” in America and completely eliminate the whole reason our Constitution included a “Senate” in the first place.
There is an alternative. Rather than try to shut down debate... follow the original intent of the Constitution. Make Democrats come to the floor of the Senate and talk about their opposition. Do not “honor their threat.” Make them take the floor and speak.
My guess is that after the first 100 hours of explaining why IDs are needed to board planes but not govern nations, and why men should shower with girls, Democrats will allow a vote and be glad the debate is over.
Repealing the filibuster isn’t the answer. Let Senators explain themselves right out of office.
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Very well said, Trent. What people seem to forget when they want to eliminate the filibuster is that it goes both ways. When the Democrats had control there was talk of eliminating the filibuster to shut up the pesky Republicans. Now, the Republicans seem to be saying the same short-sighted thing. Of course, the Republicans don't ever have the guts to stand up and follow through against the Democrats anyway, so the point is kind of moot.
I personally blame FDR, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, Clinton, Obama, and Biden. See a pattern here?
Most people are not fooled by the jargon of the Trumpist cult. It is all about trying to increase the onslaught of the baloney that the 2020 election was stolen. Most people not just democrats find that scenario hilarious. But Republicanism is become more and more a cult of snake charmers and witch hunters looking for alibis to prolong their power tripping circus to the detriment of the American people.
The scenario presented by the superstitious cult was that people were voting from the graveyard or hordes of millions of undocumented people rushed to cross the border to vote in the election. All of the nonsense breeches every form of common sense.
In the first place the scenarion of American voting has changed. As the author mentions decades ago the scenario was that over 1/4 of eligible voters that is those born in the United States, most from European descent, did not vote. It was called voter apathy. We saw much of that in the last election where a large majority of the voters were the 18 year olds who were just leaving middle school in 2020 and were taken up by the media onslaught of poor Mister Trump robbed of an election. And the faith in the voting system so undermined by the Trump cult as he spent the next four years in his legal battles for fraud and corruption gaining all the news of the corrupt American legal system. it was proven corrupt because the outlaw escaped any punishment whatsoever which would have put many behind bars for years. It was the pure power of feeding baloney to the gullible that got him elected.
Oddly enough we didn't hear any screaming about stolen elections when Trump won the ballot, even though the great number of people regretted the the decision as we saw the attention glutton wanting rename hundreds of year old places the Gulf of America, just a mark many humanitarians saw as the move toward economic imperialism from the billionaire rich boy class whose only ambition was to rule the world. Canada under seige, NATO under seige, YUniterd Nations under seige, South America under seige, and bomb the rest if they object, Trump is now the law, he makes the law, and he kills or bombs anyone who objects and he has the backing of the Holy Bible to tell his cult that he is God's agent on earth to lead the world to Armageddon and the end of the world and he wants it all to happen under his watch.
So this ploy of federalizing national election is just propganda and utter more Trump nonsense. Anyone who has voted in the State of Idaho realizes that much less than half of the State actually votes in an election, and anyone who does or is a registered voter knows that I.D is always required to register as well as proof of residence.
So what is all this nonsense about. It is about Republican power mongering to win another useless and pointless victory at the expense of American instituional integrity. Never before have our sacred instituions been under attack from such a ruthless band of power mongers. People who have abandoned the humanist stand of the United States to foster democracy and help those who suffer needlessly.
Now we are the Department of War that advocates murder and destruction to achieve its imperialistic ends. A power mongering administration that fabricates baloney to justify murder and hate. A superstitious conglomerate of witch hunters and snake charmers who think God has ordained them to end the world in the name of Jesus.
Add trent clark's to the "superstitious conglomerate".
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