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[–] 19 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (13 children)

Congress can't do anything because of the filibuster, two party system, and republicans though. The whole thing honestly needs an overhaul.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    The Senate not being population-based is part of the problem too. As are gerrymandering and not having universal adult suffrage or federal holidays for voting days. But a Constitutional Convention would be state-based, too, so we’d end up with something even worse than we have now.

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  • [+] 4 points 3 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (9 children)
  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago* (8 children)

    A filibuster raises the vote threshold, so it's not something you can just wait out. And thank to how the filibusterer works nowadays, congressmen don't actually need to get up there and talk, they can merely threaten to filibuster to raise the vote threshold.

    https://www.npr.org/2022/01/17/1072714887/filibuster-explained

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    You cloture the person

    And that essentially isn't an option at times due to how difficult it is to reach the 60 vote threshold, which means nothing gets done, which means congress is basically useless.

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  • [+] 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)
  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    You can't wait out an indefinite filibuster. And it gets to become indefinite because they don't actually need to talk at all.

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