re: #39 No Malarkey!

The filibuster is nuts because small states are already heavily overrepresented in the Senate. To also require a supermajority to pass any legislation is simply a recipe for gridlock. It doesn’t encourage compromise, only obstruction. Compromise legislation is what you get when a bill passes that everyone from Bernie Sanders to Joe Manchin votes for. There is no way to get 10 GOP votes for anything worth doing.

lets be clear though we are talking about two things

- representation of the people - ie 2 senators per state - in the constitution and hard to change and with some justification

- the rules of the senate. this is where the real problems lie. mechanically easily changeable, but politics…

ok, and third that a large bunch of pseudo-brains think every senate rule is inviolate, was there from ‘the start’ in it’s current form and use, and is exactly what the ‘framer’s intended (when it’s to their benefit).