• Fedizen
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    1 year ago

    it strikes me that congress might have authority under the 14th amendment to ban winner-take-all apportionment of electors and gerrymandering

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      It honestly doesn’t matter what Congress has the authority to do at this point. They lack the capacity. Once we get a solid Dem majority, then we can start exploring what Congress can do.

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        1 year ago

        Once we get a solid Dem majority

        We had that in 2008 for four years. Turns out they can’t do much at all.

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          No we didn’t. We had it for a few months, and we got the greatest expansion of health insurance in modern history.

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            Are you confusing the words “majority” and “supermajority”? Because Democrats did have a solid majority for four years. Democrats had a supermajority for a few months.