D.H. Lawrence once observed that “Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are slaves once more.”
The filibuster does not stop the Senate from passing true bi-partisan legislation like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the Civil Rights Act and others. But, as Arizona Democrat Senator Krysten Sinema says, without it, the country could begin “ricocheting wildly” every two years.
