You like the filibuster because you like your losses to be untempered by gains.
You’re trying to coast on the ACA from 15 years ago, when the only thing you liked about it was how the filibuster prevented the public option from happening.
If Republicans were willing to simply undo anything that Democrats put into place, why haven’t they?
They could have ended the filibuster with a simple majority and done whatever they wanted any time they had a majority in the Senate. They won’t, and it’s not because of some non-existent worship of decorum. It’s because they know that repealing popular legislation would be so unpopular that it would sink them.
Democrats just don’t want to end the filibuster. It gives them a flimsy excuse to let Republicans dictate the limits of policy regardless of who has the majority.
Republicans don’t want to end the filibuster for the same reason as Democrats: they are afraid Democrats will undo whatever they manage to pass.
And it’s laughable to suggest that they are worried about unpopularity, they pass unpopular laws all the time. Literally book banning is unpopular. Six week abortion bans are unpopular. Tax cuts for the wealthy are unpopular. Republicans don’t care, they only have to do things that are popular among conservatives.
Republicans don’t want to end the filibuster for the same reason as Democrats: they are afraid Democrats will undo whatever they manage to pass.
Sounds good. Maybe we should undo whatever Republicans pass. You don’t want to do that either, of course.
Republicans already have their mechanism for undoing things Democrats like: the courts and red states. You’ll happily let all of it go forever as long as Democrats have the only thing they care about: the Jim Crow Filibuster.
We’ve been going around in circles for some time now. You’re determined to support a stupid racist policy that serves almost exclusively to prevent civil rights legislation from passing. I’m done with this conversation. Thanks for the confirmation that the Dixiecrats never completely left the party.
And you want to undo decades of progress, because you weren’t alive before those laws were passed and you’re clueless about what life would be like without them. “Sounds good, burn it all down” is something only a privileged person would say.
It’s a shame you’re so obsessed with instant gratification. People are willing to work for enduring change, not the temporary quick-fix you’re selling.
You prefer no gain at all ever. Congratulations on getting it.
I prefer incremental gains that are not easily reversed. Like the ACA and the latest climate change legislation.
You like the filibuster because you like your losses to be untempered by gains.
You’re trying to coast on the ACA from 15 years ago, when the only thing you liked about it was how the filibuster prevented the public option from happening.
I like the filibuster because without it the ACA wouldn’t have lasted 15 years.
If Republicans were willing to simply undo anything that Democrats put into place, why haven’t they?
They could have ended the filibuster with a simple majority and done whatever they wanted any time they had a majority in the Senate. They won’t, and it’s not because of some non-existent worship of decorum. It’s because they know that repealing popular legislation would be so unpopular that it would sink them.
Democrats just don’t want to end the filibuster. It gives them a flimsy excuse to let Republicans dictate the limits of policy regardless of who has the majority.
Republicans don’t want to end the filibuster for the same reason as Democrats: they are afraid Democrats will undo whatever they manage to pass.
And it’s laughable to suggest that they are worried about unpopularity, they pass unpopular laws all the time. Literally book banning is unpopular. Six week abortion bans are unpopular. Tax cuts for the wealthy are unpopular. Republicans don’t care, they only have to do things that are popular among conservatives.
Sounds good. Maybe we should undo whatever Republicans pass. You don’t want to do that either, of course.
Republicans already have their mechanism for undoing things Democrats like: the courts and red states. You’ll happily let all of it go forever as long as Democrats have the only thing they care about: the Jim Crow Filibuster.
We’ve been going around in circles for some time now. You’re determined to support a stupid racist policy that serves almost exclusively to prevent civil rights legislation from passing. I’m done with this conversation. Thanks for the confirmation that the Dixiecrats never completely left the party.
And you want to undo decades of progress, because you weren’t alive before those laws were passed and you’re clueless about what life would be like without them. “Sounds good, burn it all down” is something only a privileged person would say.
It’s a shame you’re so obsessed with instant gratification. People are willing to work for enduring change, not the temporary quick-fix you’re selling.