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oh, not "we." for the last 15 years or more, i've only voted the anti-incumbent ticket. for city council, my vote is a toss-up between "anybody else" and "somebody different."
Kill the filibuster already.
The argument that we shouldn't remove or neuter the filibuster because it might be bad for the Democrats is not valid. The filibuster is bad for this nation, period, and that's the only criterion we should be concerned with.
That's also what Democrats should be concerned with. The Democrats are the only semblance of a "country first" party we have left. The Republicans are a "party first" party, with corporate donors a close second. (The Dems are hardly better, but they are.)
The Senate is a body where a state like Wyoming with scarcely 540,000 citizens has just as much representation as a state like California with almost 37 million citizens. This is the kind of arrangement that is more appropriate for a union of sovereign nations like the EU, an anachronism of the pre-Civil War days where people would say "the United States are". The filibuster only compounds the travesty of democracy that already is the U.S. Senate.
Didja know....
states with only ten percent of our population can have one third the senators? IOW we could have 90% of population represented in the senate in favor of ...oh, say DISCLOSE or national health care.... and the minority ten percent can block it?
This NON DEMOCRATIC feature of our 18th century constitution is the biggest diff. between us and every nation with national health care. we are a joke, constitutionally speaking, we do not even have majority rule with this unconstitutional practice in place and the democrats are the biggest fucking babies in the world of politics because they don't just vote to kill it TODAY. Which they could, ANY DAY.
GOP: not afraid to use power.
Dems: "oh, we don't like to use our power, that's what the GOP does. We prefer to be victims of the GOP, thank you, so it's okay with us if the progressive platfrom fails for decades as long as we keep getting reelected and then we come out to seattle and all you idiots cheer us on like sheep! We've convinced our own base to settle for failure, and it's a good gig!"
KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!