So about whether we should get rid of the filibuster, the Heir's response is a shrug and saying, well sure why not?  His thinking is that if we believe that the filibuster would be used to block the voting rights acts in Washington at a time when Georgia and other states are making it harder to vote, it only makes sense to him to not have something around to stop you from doing the right thing.  But he disagrees with the notion that the filibuster is somehow *evil* and a vestige from the past.  He thinks that's very much played up so that the Ed Snowdens will have a fake argument at their disposal to go after the "centrist" and "don't stand for anything" Donkeys For The People, and not just politicians, but also everyday people.  Flaileef is going around right now to those socially distanced and mask requiring frozen yogurt shops berating the customers there for not declaring war on the filibuster.  This clues the Heir into why he believes the Donkeys haven't gotten rid of the filibuster, and it's not necessarily because they might need it when they're in the minority again.  No, what he believes is that if they get rid of the filibuster, it'll just reinforce the notion for the Ed Snowdens that the Donkeys are just a pushover bunch, and it'll encourage the Snowdens to berate them and the constituents they represent into doing even more stuff nobody's sure they want to do.  The Donkeys the Heir sees as wanting to listen more to their constituents than to the Ed Snowdens, which he sees as perfectly appropriate if the debate at large is about protecting democracy.  After all, we don't live in a *Snowdenocracy* or a *Flaileefocracy*.  It continues to strike the Heir at how undemocratic the democratic process really is.  Didn't they think about that in Ancient Greece back in the day?