The filibuster debate:
The Senate filibuster is used when you want to prevent a vote. If your opponents will have 51 votes on an issue you can stop the vote by endlessly talking and not yielding the floor. To override a filibuster takes 60 votes.


Suppose that when you go to vote next November a group of protesters block the door at your precinct. The protesters say that polls show their candidate will lose if the election is allowed to proceed. You complain but are told officially that the protesters have a right to do it and it is called a filibuster. Is this democracy?