“Dr. King knew the Jim Crow filibuster was a barrier to progress & justice, and that remains true today,” Rep. Ayanna Pressley tweeted. “To honor his legacy and claim our place on the right side of history, we must abolish the filibuster.”
If this is true, and we must assume that Pressley believes it to be so, she and all Democrats should immediately commit to refusing to make use of the filibuster under any circumstances.
Otherwise they might be kicked out of the Right Side of History Bar & Grill.
It is shameful that over 50 years after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by a supporter of Alabama Democrat Governor George Wallace some Democrats still continue to utilize the filibuster. Now that the Democrats have officially denounced the filibuster as the work of Jim Crow (even though it actually originated with anti-slavery Whigs like Henry Clay attacking pro-slavery Jacksonians), it’s time for them to live up to their standards and reject the filibuster.
“The Jim Crow Filibuster Must Go,” the Center for American Progress hectored. “End the Jim Crow Filibuster Now,” MoveOn clamored.
Martin Luther King III demanded that Senator Sinema see to it that “the Jim Crow filibuster does not stand in the way” of Democrat plans for permanent majority rule. Because if there’s anything his father stood for, it was the unambiguous right of the majority to rule over the minority.
Obama, as usual, got all of this started when he insisted that, “if all this takes eliminating the filibuster, another Jim Crow relic”.
Confusingly, Democrats keep relying on this Jim Crow relic, most recently when they blocked Senator Ted Cruz’s sanctions on Putin’s European pipeline possibly because, to play by their rules, Vladimir has tapes of them with micturating prostitutes in a Moscow hotel room.
It’s unfathomable that at a time when we are courageously toppling the statues of anyone who lived in the 19th century (never mind the 18th century) that Democrats cling to this vestige of Jim Crow in order to protect Russian pipelines, illegal aliens and abortion, and also to stop Senator Tim Scott’s police reform legislation. Truly the Dem filibuster is a relic of Jim Crow.
Democrats, who have called this dreadful issue to our attention, must lead the way.
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Since they’ve decided that it’s the Jim Crow Filibuster, let it be so every time they use it even when they suddenly change their minds and decide that the Jim Crow Filibuster should really be known as the Martin Luther King Filibuster and that employing it is a true tribute to his legacy.
“Words matter,” as Obama said a long time ago before he decided that they didn’t after all.
Democrats Must Refuse to Use the Jim Crow Filibuster
Forward with the Anocracy!