When the game is changed you can no longer play by the old rules. Take today's mainstream media for an example. While it has changed from being a free press, attempting to inform the people, to being full-blown propaganda, attempting to indoctrinate the people, it still demands full protection under the old rules, which were designed to protect the Fourth Estate, not fifth columnists. While we can go on and on with one example after another of how today's game changers have rigged today's games by turning past rules to their present-day advantage, there is no better example than the filibuster rule in the United States Senate.

Way back when the Senate was considered to be “the greatest deliberative body in the world,” the filibuster rule was established to prolong debate and deliberation over difficult legislation, in the hope that it would create consensus and result in carefully thought through legislation that would best benefit the nation. Today, you know, as well as I do, that there is nothing deliberative about the United States Senate. Instead, prudent deliberation has now become partisan divisiveness. No longer do Senators desire consensus, but demand conformity; no longer do they seek what’s best for our country, but only what’s best for their own political careers and political party. Therefore, the filibuster has been changed into a means of political extortion. By commandeering it, the minority party holds the majority hostage until the majority gives in to the minority’s every demand.

Today’s game changing dictatorial Democrats couldn’t care less about deliberation and debate. In fact, they’re ardently against it, knowing that their radical agenda can neither win a debate nor withstand the scrutiny of deliberation. Therefore, they’ve seized the old Senate filibuster rule to shut down the government, to blackmail their political opponents into giving them their way, and to hold the whole country hostage until their every demand is met. Needless to say, it’s time; indeed, it’s high time, to change the Senate’s old filibuster rule in today’s totally changed Senate. Republicans should definitely heed President Trump’s call to end the filibuster, by opting at long last for the nuclear option. After all, until they do, Republicans will never disarm blackmailing Democrats of their beloved filibuster, which they readily use for the purpose of political extortion.

TRUMP CALLS FOR END OF SENATE FILIBUSTER TO BREAK FUNDING STALEMATE