(05-01-2021, 11:18 AM)StroudCrowd1 Wrote:

(05-01-2021, 10:58 AM)mikesez Wrote: When the Senate is controlled by Democrats, everything is decided by the 50th or 51st most liberal member.
When the Senate is controlled by republicans, everything is decided by the 50th or 51st most conservative member.
Nothing is ever decided by the ideological bomb throwers on the left or the right.
For a little while in 2017, John McCain was the most powerful senator.
Now Joe Manchin is.
Everything goes to the center.
The Senate is one of the few things that we have that still works as the founders designed it. If we could get rid of the filibuster it would work even better.

The filibuster is a safe haven against radicals who think like you.

This country has gone through radical changes many times already.  The filibuster didn't stop it.
All the filibuster does is change the math in certain situations. Instead of the 50th or 51st senator having so much power, in some situations it is the 60th. When the incentive structure is such that the 60th senator would rather get something done rather than nothing, the filibuster works. When the incentive structure lines up so that nothing is preferable to something, the filibuster does not work.
Now that the different partisans in America are no longer watching the same news and believing the same facts, the incentive structures are not there, and the time for the filibuster has ended.

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