AOC vs the filibuster

[Dem4Life1102]

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[qazplm135]

1. ok sure

but we don't have the votes to get rid of it, so....

[speak easy]

2. Y'wanna kill the filibuster?

Get a better majority than 50:50.

[uponit7771]

8. We already do with VP vote. We're not dealing with people who want democracy so there's no tomorrow

... with the kGOP.

We lose senate or house in 2022 this thing is over

[Fullduplexxx]

10. No you dont Manchin and sinema are a no

[dutch777]

9. Yeah, that's a thing. And if we can't do better than 50% when Trump is on the ballot, when will we?

I REALLY hope the DNC and state Dem committees are looking hard at where we are missing on policy, messaging, etc. If we don't beat the usual pattern in the mid-terms, we will be scrooged.

[aocommunalpunch]

3. Apparently, it is.

I'd like to present this to the usuals on a loop. Instead, like the filibuster they so admire, they will hide, not be held accountable for their INaction, and get away with it.

We're number one, baby ... number one.

[comradebillyboy]

4. If the Dems only had the votes to do it it would

have already been done.

[PSPS]

5. Unfortunately, minority rule is baked into the system ... for now.

With a few more (reliably) democratic senators, it can be eliminated with a simple majority vote.

[jorgevlorgan]

6. I'm digging Wyden's new idea.

Hope it passes.

[uponit7771]

7. AMEN AND AMEN!!! .. and kGOP will get rid of it anyway!!! It's a rule and not a law

[Azathoth]

11. Without the filibuster, the ACA would have been gone in 2017

The only reason it survived was because of the limitations imposed by the reconciliation process.

The amount of damage Trump and the GOP would have done during those first two years would have been cataclysmic, as opposed to merely catastrophic.

Breaking things is a lot easier than building them, which puts Democrats at a structural disadvantage. Just food for thought.