Democrats Moved the Filibuster Overton Window

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Democrats and civil-rights advocates were devastated when Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema blocked a change in Senate rules last night and allowed a Republican filibuster to kill crucial voting-rights legislation.

But for activists, the long battle over voter protections hasn’t been entirely in vain: It’s fundamentally changed the center of gravity in the Democratic Party to the point where those two holdouts a

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/democrats-moved-the-filibuster-overton-window/ar-AASYwOb

[brush]

1. Nobody was devastated. We knew how they were going to vote.

[jimfields33]

2. First line in article says otherwise

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13. Oh, please. That's the writer editorializing. Anyone who's been...

paying attention knew those two DINOs were going to vote with the republicans. They've been saying it for months. It was no surprise.

[Midnight Writer]

11. I knew my Mother was going to die, but it was still devastating.

[Scrivener7]

3. Isn't this of little benefit to us, but of great benefit to republiQans when they regain Congress?

I keep seeing this claim, and it doesn't really look to me like it's to our advantage. What am I missing?

[Tickle]

4. Cooler heads prevail

We used the filibuster in the last few years of Trump. Thank god for small miracles. Imagine if we didn’t have it. Manchin and Sinema are not against voting rights but are for allowing the minority voice to be heard in DC

[Scrivener7]

6. Ummm... no, dear. Manchin and Sinema are not cooler heads. They are

obstructionists who are thwarting the will of the people.

[uponit7771]

8. So Moscow Mitch wont change the rules for GQP priorities if they get senate back? tia

[rockfordfile]

10. Why? It proves to the American people that republicans don't support voting rights

They're on record not supporting voting right's they can't lie about.

[Scrivener7]

12. But it allows them to eliminate the filibuster when they get back into office.

And it allows them to KNOW we won't do it during our term in power. It's a win win for them, a lose lose for us.

[greenjar_01]

5. Um...great?

[aocommunalpunch]

7. I guess the only power left is to hold votes.

Do it constantly and post the results like your life depends on it. Remember, Republicans and Manchinema are the problem. Hang it on their necks or bury your head in the sand.

[JustAnotherGen]

9. Not devastated

Angry. As Eric Holder said - we have to quickly change the playbook for 2022. Right now.

It won't come from the Demcoratic Party - or Democratic Socialists. NAACP needs to quickly start training field operatives on voter registration.

My branch is meeting about it this weekend.

Yes - HR1 and HR4 were going to impact many Americans - but where it's going to COUNT this year -

Black Voters. Mitch showed his hand. He spit in our faces. So black folks need to get out there and dominate at the polls this year. We have no choice - and this political football for different factions of elected officials - is our job to take the air out of it.

We do that by organizing, getting angry, and getting up in the grill of 'Americans'.