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Since Manchin wants to preserve the filibuster, he absolutely is a saboteur. Filibuster comes from a word meaning sabotage. The filibuster allows for minority rule. That’s crazy. Civil rights legislation was filibustered for years.

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And 'saboteur' comes from 'making noise by walking around with clogs' so that no one can be heard. Pretty much like the clogged minds doing filibusters.

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Sabotage comes from the industrial Revolution where a disgruntled French worker threw his wooden shoe (sabot) into the gears of a large machine, disabling it and causing expensive repairs.

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Never tire of learning something new, every day. Thanks for that tidbit.

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And the Senate just did a carve out to the filibuster to raise the debt ceiling. Don’t hear Manchin calling for one for voting rights

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While there's no question that the modern legislative filibuster can be defined as sabotaging U.S. democracy, it actually derives from the Dutch vrijbuiter, but came to English in the 1840s from the Spanish filibustero, meaning "freebooter"—that is, a pirate or plunderer. This essay on the etymology of the term clarifies that. https://www.etymonline.com/word/Filibuster

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