When the 2000 presidential election was decided by one vote in the Supreme Court did Democrats go to the Capitol and try to overthrow the government? Unthinkable. When President Obama was was elected and a seat on the Supreme Court was open who took that absolute right away? Republican Mitch McConnell. And then the Amy Coney Barrett thing which was so…I really have no words for the ugliness that brought to our politics. I don’t trust MAGA’s as far as I can throw them and I truly believed that Democrats would lose support if they acted as Republicans have in the last 25 years. Get rid of the electoral college. That brings free and fair elections. I have changed my mind on that issue as I think that will stop the polarization all these shenanigans have caused.
I think, yet again, you have landed where reality lives, Billy. Extreme dependence on the filibuster is admission that we don't trust ourselves and the hard won struggle to improve the governance institutions and norms we depend on for principled leadership. Artificial workarounds are still...artificial and offer no assurance of reasoned outcomes. At some point, we are going to have to accept that reality and engage in actual problem solving through compromise based on accurate understanding of the issues rather than revolving character assassination.
It is anything but easy, as we know. The case you make reminds that rights and freedoms, absent responsible behavior, constitute license. Constructive governance cannot function on fuel like that.
When the 2000 presidential election was decided by one vote in the Supreme Court did Democrats go to the Capitol and try to overthrow the government? Unthinkable. When President Obama was was elected and a seat on the Supreme Court was open who took that absolute right away? Republican Mitch McConnell. And then the Amy Coney Barrett thing which was so…I really have no words for the ugliness that brought to our politics. I don’t trust MAGA’s as far as I can throw them and I truly believed that Democrats would lose support if they acted as Republicans have in the last 25 years. Get rid of the electoral college. That brings free and fair elections. I have changed my mind on that issue as I think that will stop the polarization all these shenanigans have caused.
I think, yet again, you have landed where reality lives, Billy. Extreme dependence on the filibuster is admission that we don't trust ourselves and the hard won struggle to improve the governance institutions and norms we depend on for principled leadership. Artificial workarounds are still...artificial and offer no assurance of reasoned outcomes. At some point, we are going to have to accept that reality and engage in actual problem solving through compromise based on accurate understanding of the issues rather than revolving character assassination.
It is anything but easy, as we know. The case you make reminds that rights and freedoms, absent responsible behavior, constitute license. Constructive governance cannot function on fuel like that.