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Her and manchin publicly argue that getting rid of the filibuster would allow republicans to gut the social safety net when/if they take control of government. I think that's a bad argument though because there's always another election and if Republicans did do that then votes could put Democrats back in power to restore and/or improve everything.
I guess we could flip flop on stuff like that but the folks screwed over during the interim are going to have a really bad time.
Of course that's also assuming some Democrats aren't convinced (💰) to go along and we never get these program back. And if we do then we lose them again when the Republicans manage to up their voter suppression & gerrymandering game.
We're at a point where nothing gets accomplished at all. This graph illustrates how common it is to obstruct legislation, appointments, etc now.
I'd like a graph like this that went past 2010
Except it takes a lot more time, effort and money to rebuild something than it does to destroy it.
As the Bigen administration is currently experiencing.
That's true. I guess that I think it's worth the risk. The filibuster has basically brought to a halt any major legislation on a variety of matters. I think not doing anything could be worse.