> “There is nothing constitutional about a filabuster.”
Entirely true.
> “It was a creation of the Slaver representative John C. Calhoun to prevent any laws affecting slavery. It is and has always been despicable.”
Not substantially accurate. The filibuster was a social norm of adversity to mob rule. It was established in the form of a gentlemen’s agreement in BOTH the House and the Senate. It was abandoned in the House because the number of members of the House kept increasing.
The recent ongoing debasement of the culture over the previous decades has culminated in eviscerating many tenets of ‘gentlemanly behavior’. The standards have been lowered so much that actions by men are now eating away at the form of government the Founders left us. Abandonment of the filibuster is but one symptom of a more widespread disease.
Total abandonment of the filibuster leads to mob-based rule. It leads to the historically known design failure of pure democracy.
The age-old question that teachers and professors of history ask their students is “Why have democracies always failed?”.
The answer is that democracies of every era, ancient and contemporary, have always failed because they devolve into mobs. A government subject to a Rule of Law stops or impedes this devolvement.
Fortunately, Colonel George Mason, a close friend and fellow Virginian of General George Washington, wisely foresaw the events we see unfolding today and provided a way to roll back the corruption by insisting on a rewording of Article V of the Constitution that stands today.
Reality will set in the Senate and the rule dropped there, it is not protection from the “mob”. Nor was there one when the rule was adopted. Calhoun knew that new states added would eventually give the Anti-Slavers the upper hand and laws contrary to their wishes would be passed. Hence, a means of thwarting the majority which was turning against him and the system he represented.
The excesses of the mob was limited to a Jacksonian party getting out of hand and roughing up the White House. Most of these, in fact, favored slavery in any case.