The Senate should remove the filibuster to fight the far-left establishment
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The filibuster, which is essentially the 60-vote limit to pass legislation in the United States Senate, is a well-intentioned tool intended to protect the rights of states, markets and people from overreaching federal legislation. But now it must be stopped.
Under the filibuster, the Senate can only act when a piece of legislation is popular, and in the current case of the Save America Act, it has broad public support, even then.
If the Senate revokes this power, the power does not disappear, rather it is placed in non-governmental institutions that we must trust to serve the country and its people.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, DN.Y., and Senate Democrats attacked Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s, RS.D., effort to prevent a partial government shutdown. (Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images; Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
So, for example, despite the Save America Act’s restrictions on mail-in ballots, non-governmental organizations, such as Mark Zuckerberg and Meta back in 2020, are free to influence elections by offering mail-in voting assistance, but only in their politically sanctioned areas.
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In an age where we have trusted educational institutions, homeless outreach or election monitoring, this can be good, and commendable. But we do not live in such an age. In our time, the progressive left has captured almost all the institutions that the Senate devotes its energy to.
In the 1720s, England had almost no state-run prisons. Instead, wardensips were bought, and the warden profited from the prisoners’ money.
In 1729, an architect named Robert Castell was thrown into debtors’ prison, but he could not pay the bailiff’s money. He slept in a room with a man who had smallpox, contracted the disease and died.
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Anger arose, and Sir Robert Walpole, arguably England’s first prime minister who favored indirect administration to direct government control of institutions, began to see the need for state prisons.
Was the flawed private prison system in Georgian England really that different from our federal government giving millions of dollars to bogus orphanages in Minneapolis or hospices in LA?
Even after the fraud, our leading institutions had an incredibly negative impact on areas like the trans movement, where basically all of them agreed that children should undergo hormonal surgery to change their gender.
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It wasn’t until executive orders, state legislatures and courts stepped up to the craze that the fever began to cool, and now, hospitals are quietly removing those “services”.
It was a government, by the people and for the people, that put in place a shadow government of distant institutions that no one ever voted for.
Castell was not the first person to be tortured or die in the oldest English private prison system, so why did his case cause such outrage and eventual change?
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However, about 25 years earlier there was something that came on the scene in London called a newspaper, suddenly, not just an educated Londoner, but a man who heard the news being read in a coffee shop or a bar saw the corruption immediately.
Similarly, 25 years ago, we saw the rise of internet news, and suddenly the gatekeepers could not hide the evils of the institutions that used to sit on their boards.
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Suddenly the stories of voter fraud, or conversion, or the absurd DEI courses in our schools could not be covered. The decay within our institutions is laid bare for all to see, as was the brutality of England’s prisons 300 years ago.
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Today, Senate Majority Leader John Thune faces a choice similar to Walpole’s in the 18th century. They would very much like to keep the federal government out of the lives of the American people, but the institutions that operate in their lives are broken and corrupt.
Although it is the House of Representatives, not the Senate, that is intended to be the vehicle of popular will in our system, the Senate is not intended to be a permanent roadblock to the decision of the House of the people even in the face of overwhelming popular support.
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Sadly, that’s what the filibuster is all about today, the reason our legislatures are doing nothing as non-government agencies continue to tighten their grip on American society.
There may have been a time when a filibuster made sense, but now is not that time. Now is the time for people’s government to take power from our broken, far-left institutions.
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