• Salamendacious@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 year ago

    There are a lot of Democrats who openly talk about getting rid of the Senate filibuster. If Democrats do well in 2024 and that happens it’s possible that we could see real anti-gerrymandering legislation and I think that could change everything. Democrats typically get more votes in aggregate than Republicans in house races but cracking and packing gerrymandering makes it hard for Democrats to keep control of the house. That could all change.

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      1 year ago

      Filibuster is the dumbest thing.

      Any republican policy that’s worth filibustering would just be ignored by the general public, anyways.

      It seems like it solely benefits minority rule to stop the majority from doing what it wants.

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        1 year ago

        No what I’m saying is the Republicans wouldn’t be able to filibuster a democratic agenda. Anti-gerrymandering, police reform, health care reform, etc. there are a lot of Democratic goals that Republicans have consistently blocked.

        In my scenario Democrats would control all of Congress and the white house.

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          1 year ago

          Yes, the filibuster only serves to allow Republicans (the minority) to prevent the will of the majority.

          If there is ever an issue that the Democrats feel requires filibustering, then the American public is more than likely to just ignore it if it passes. This is because of how wildly unpopular it likely is, and how obvious it would be that loons in red states are trying to control sane people from blue ones.