If we do what now? Waste time trying to push through what cannot be pushed through? That’s not long-term thinking, it’s a short-term tactic that’s doomed to fail. And do you really think that trying to eliminate the filibuster, which can’t be done without have 50 votes, and we’re 2 short of 50, would not simply allow the other Party to run roughshod over what we have left of democracy? That the Republican Party will actually become concerned with governing for the nation rather than their current tactics of seeking, gaining more and holding onto that power out of the goodness of their corporate-owned hearts? I’m NOT saying that a one-Party government wouldn’t devolve into the same type of government if Democrats had full, unfettered control, either, but I’m saying that the minority of Americans still need some protection; just not that unsurpassable 60 votes required now. Have you not noticed that red-controlled states are passing law after law to suppress voting and in several cases, allowing the state legislators to throw out any votes they don’t like and giving the election to the Republican candidate? If that was the case in 2020, we’d still be saddled with Trump. And that’s what YOU want? I’m sure you haven’t failed to notice that and without the filibuster there would be absolutely nothing to stop them. That’s a quick, well, overnight, way to install an authoritarian government. And that’s what you want rather than an at least half functioning democracy? No honest progressive would ever want that. And you are an honest progressive, right? Or at least you pretend to be progressively-minded.
The filibuster should be and possibly can be changed; maybe to a 54 or 55 vote threshold rather than the 60 vote it is now- it was 75 votes required when first introduced, if you weren’t, and don’t seem to be, aware of that fact. Reducing it again would, most likely, be doable. Eliminating it entirely simply is not doable and if it even happened it would lead us to one-party rule.
And you don’t like or trust either Party so that, on its face, would be a big step back, as in, the end of the semi-working democracy we have in favor of an authoritarian government. And that seems to be what you want so are you progressive or regressive? It’s hard to know judging by your attitude whether you’re a Republican or a Democrat, leftist, progressive. Which is why long-term thinking is important, whether you think so or not. Most big businesses work on short-think thinking- profit above all else. It wasn’t that way until Reagan came into office and has gotten progressively worse since then. Between the time of FDR until the 1950s to the mid-1960s, most businesses saw themselves as a part of society that was equally responsible to the civic duty of all society advancing, while still making a healthy profit. It can be that way again but not unless there is some sort of filibuster to protect the majority from tyranny of the minority.
Translation of your position: hey, let’s all be fascists, it’s the American way we’ve always wanted, Jim Crow and all. We don’t need civil rights or racial equity or any social safety net at all because we got what we wanted- NO filibuster! Goody for us all!
That’s the position you’re defending and, no, that isn’t long-term thinking- it’s suicide.
