Sinima has it backwards

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6. It's a tool, and tools can be used or abused, for good or evil

A hammer can be used to build a house or crack a skull
A car can be used to get you someplace useful or ram into things

The filibuster used to be used rarely, and then largely harmlessly. It often led to a compromise. Whether that compromise was actually better for the nation is a subject for debate, but it usually had a constructive effect and didn't kill the bill entirely.

Mcturtle changed everything. He has used it way, way, way more than anyone else in the entire history of the senate, and usually simply to prevent democrats from doing anything at all. Usually he doesn't even negotiate for any compromise because what he wants us to prevent democrats from doing anything at all.


And as usual, the media consistently refuses to make republicans pay a price for ruining things. Republicans ruined whatever may have been good about the filibuster by abusing it relentlessly, but the media only blames democrats who are only trying to be productive on behalf of the people.