the only time the filibuster has ever been used to protect a particular interest of a set of states is to kill anti-lynching and civil rights legislation. that's it.

congress is a russian nesting doll of counter-majoritarian structures. seems to me that there's no need for a supermajority rule on top of that!

Only one guy got mad at me for slowly peddling up this hill, he was a jerk that had diplomatic immunity and no understanding of DC cycling law, and I regret nothing