on the filibuster

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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

Naturally if you knew of or understood history you would have some sense of why the system was designed as it is. Seemingly in your perfect world we would just have an opinion poll that dictated our laws. Maybe the political version of Sportsnation? Because that show is working out so well...

Happened because idiots got their way in a 5-4 vote. They had the correct way (Virginia Plan) right in front of them, and blew it. They decided to take away the power of the typical voter in Virginia, and give it to the typical voter in Rhode Island. Wrong then, and wrong now. It's still immoral. Americans do immoral things, and rationalize them. Then, the biggest difference in population was 10x. Now it's 70x, but you cling to this as if they'd be for it today (wrong.) Anyone with a fair brain can see the problem, but there really aren't that many fair brains. We had an election. The President got 53.4% of American voters ballots. I have no problem with a check on the majority, but not a 65% requirement. The wreck called the U.S. Senate is badly biased towards certain elite citizens who happen to be in smaller population states, but a certain party is forcing filibuster for almost everything. This is not typical. It's never been used this much, but seems the election of a Negro President has resulted in the American people not giving a damn that it's been used over 100 times (absurd.) Combine a biased pool with a 60% requirement has resulted in requiring a President to get 65% of the American Population's Senators to pass anything. Now, as you can see on the posts above, people want their cake n' eat it too. They like gridlock that this 60% of a trick pool has resulted in, but they also want to complain that the leader isn't doing anything to solve problems (as I said, Americans do immoral things, n' rationalize them.) The filibuster combined with the biased Senate pool is a doubling of the check on the power of the majority.