Sen. Kyrsten Sinema: The Dagger at the Throat of Democracy
January 6 and in Georgia on Tuesday, sais some were “holding a dagger at the throat of democracy.”Today, Arizona Democratic Sen.
Kyrsten Sinema gave a full-throated endorsement of the filibuster, thereby crushing any hope that voting rights laws will pass Congress.
The filibuster and the 60-vote threshold that it protects and was cemented during the Jim Crow era were saved by a white bisexual woman.A person who upholds the rights of a minority in the legislature to control actual minorities of which she is neither is galling.
And Sinema represents a state that fought tooth and nail against the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday, which coincidentally is on Monday.What’s ironic about this entire catastrophe is that reauthorizing the Voting Rights Act isn’t some dangerous conspiracy or even partisan.
