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Daily Poll 44: Does the filibuster make the Senate better?
This has been in the news again recently but ever since Brandon came into office, the Democrats have been pushing to abolish the filibuster. The filibuster currently exists as a hurdle to slim majorities pushing radical legislation through the Senate. I’m an anarchist as I’ve said before and the best thing that can happen to the Senate is its abolishment. I do think this is an interesting topic though and so I pose the question to you.
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7 Replies
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As far as I’m concerned if his stops are slows down the government from doing anything I’m happy with it
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Guberment that gubers less gubers best
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Strategically speaking, the senate is better with a filibuster because I have no faith that liberty-minded politicians will be in the majority. With the filibuster, the liberty politicians can put as much roadblock to authoritarian measures as possible.
And it provides them the necessary platform to preach liberty to all willing to listen, like what Rand Paul did many years back.
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I think Rand Paul is one of the decent politicians but he’s still part of a system that should be abolished.
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When someone starts filibustering, that branch of government does what it should spend much more time doing. Nothing. I wish someone would filibuster every day. Plus, it gives the smarter ones a chance to actually say things that are worth saying, while the nation watches. Democrats loved filibusters, until they had their President in power. They’re just mad because filibusters are threatening to keep them from passing “voting rights” bills that actually just federalize elections and leave them wide open to fraud and corruption. Democrats are attempting an authoritarian takeover in a not so subtle way. Manipulation of election results, and the end of one of the best tools against sneaking bullshit bills through the senate before anyone notices.
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Most of the time congress does nothing, they’re on vacation for like a third of the year. Which makes it even worse when the laws congress does manage to pass go through since reforming them takes even longer. It’s why the whole system is illegitimate since it can’t adapt to the needs of private individuals and industries fast enough.
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I agree, but a quicker response isn’t really the solution or the thing I would point to if I was going to argue for why the system is illegitimate. It was designed that way because the responsibility of government at the time it was structured was pretty minimal, so by limiting the amount of time they have to be politicians, they’d spend their time being businessmen instead and theoretically limit corruption and keep the scope of federal government limited as a natural side effect of their limited time. What the founders didn’t foresee very well was an entire industry devoted to writing legislative packages tailored to the needs and wants of the highest bidder, and acting as brokers of corruption by trading campaign donations for prepackaged legislation that benefits their clients. They also didn’t forsee the legislative capabilities of a similarly corrupted judicial branch.
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