Crossposted from Docudharma
In the long and storied history of our fine and glorious land of sweeping plains, crashing oceans, and majestic mountains, a democracy that sweeps from sea to shining sea, a land that has been through a Civil War and racial strife, and perceived internal enemies, in an entire history of a land beset by challenges and strife, through all that we have been through as a nation, in the 233 years that this shining city on the hill has existed...
...NO POLITICAL PARTY HAS EVER FILIBUSTERED ITSELF.
Never, not once, ever, nada, zip, bupkis. It is just NOT done.
But that is quite possibly what is about to happen.
Will this unprecedented instance of a political party be over a war? Over race or communism? Over say, Torture and War Crimes? Over some hugely important global threat to the safety of our nation? Will some urgent threat or emergency cause this never before seen rift in one of our political parties?
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