white landowners and then ultimately, it was former slaves and ultimately, women. naturalized immigrants, young people who were old enough when i was coming up to join the military but not to vote. and so we extended the vote to 18-year-olds. all of this has been about honoring this idea of a participatory democracy and the notion, if i may say, yasmin, that we're arguing about a procedural rule, the filibuster, that appears nowhere in the constitution, that is completely antithetical to these ideals of participatory democracy, that was invented in the 1930s for the purpose of making it harder to pass civil rights laws, would now be defended as some institutional, you know, kind of