The filibuster is ephemeral. The South and the filibuster are antiquities. The South could go back to the cotton gin. Voting rights stand as perversion to the South. The filibuster and the Southabuster share many things. Like contempt. Why the democrats would keep around a bunch of rules designed 25 million years ago as Republicans became dinosaurs yet even then. The South still wants to punish the North. But the South lost. After that great unpleasantness. Then, the South kicked in again. The telephone was invented 30 million years so dinosaurs could phone it in. All phone lines lead to Tennessee. The battle for Nashville was anticlimactic. Any legislation the South does not like, gets the scorch-the-earth-policy as rhetoric. If they are going to scorch the earth anyway, why do they need the filibuster. We can secure democracy without the filibuster or the South. No federal dollars, the South will beg to be readmitted. Mitch or no Mitch. Reconciliation is not an end run around a party that has no idea what it is. The filibuster is a trick. A deflated football. Reconciliation is a dark irony. There has never been reconciliation between the haves and the have nots no matter what we call a culture war that takes no prisoners. Capitalism is our new god. There is no market for the South. No one wants it. The filibuster is an example of a society that has no idea if it wants to win or lose. The filibuster must disappear and majority rule reinstated. We can vote on it.