Lindsey Graham threatens to "talk until I fell over" to stop LGBTQ civil rights bill from passing

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68. "Please proceed, Senator."

This is typical Repub "politics of exclusion" or the belief that everything is zero-sum.

Essentially they would rather bluster their easy, black and white argument, which is always in terms of: if someone gains rights, someone else has to lose rights, which is ridiculous. They do this with gay marriage too, saying it would "destroy the sanctity" when in reality gay marriage does not affect heterosexual marriage one bit.

Where Democrats generally wish to welcome everyone under the same tent, the Repubs try to get their way by insisting that adding someone else in the tent means someone else has to leave - because they'd rather exclude than get along with ideas they don't agree with. They'd rather join an exclusive club instead of figuring out how everyone might benefit.