America, In a Nutshell

Sigh. For fuck's sake:

The 50 Democratic senators who support the For the People Act represent 43 million more Americans than the 50 Republican senators who oppose it. Yet because of the 60-vote requirement to pass most legislation, 41 Republican senators representing just 21 percent of the country can block the bill from moving forward, even though it's supported by 68 percent of the public.

And yet Joe Manchin's idiotic fever dream of finding reasonable Republicans in favor of bi-partisanship marches on...