re: #83 EPR-radar

We haven’t had meaningful debate in Congress in our lifetimes (except for the oldest among us). So I view that as a pipe dream.

Without a filibuster, a GOP president, house and senate would undo every piece of Federal progressive legislation ever passed into law, out of spite and to piss off liberals.

If that happens, the GOP would likely lose the presidency and Congress (assuming they don’t succeed in their inevitable attempt to lock in a dictatorship).

Then Democrats would have to try to put it all back together again, and when perfection in this nearly impossible task is not achieved, then the electorate will put Republicans back in charge (or we end up with a divided government where nothing gets done).

Thus bang-bang control (or stasis). Mind you, this is not a argument to keep the filibuster in place. It is an argument to be prepared for the shit that will hit the fan if it is removed.

The GOP actually wouldn’t. They couldn’t even repeal Obamacare, which they loathed. They couldn’t privatize Social Security when that was Bush’s top priority. All they would do is cut taxes again, because their libertarian agenda is toxic with their elderly base dependent on social security, medicare and medicaid.