October 3, 2020
Vox's Ezra Klein explains what will happen if Democrats win
By Andrea Widburg
For over 180 years, the Senate has relied on the filibuster to prevent the tyranny of the majority. This forced senators to work things out rather than ride roughshod over each other. Democrats should be especially aware of the filibuster's virtues, given that their decision to do away with the filibuster for Supreme Court nominations means they cannot stop Amy Coney Barrett's nomination. Despite that, Democrats still want to do away with the filibuster entirely. Ezra Klein, at Vox, explains why: Democrats have a long list of hard-left initiatives they can achieve only by bulldozing them through with the smallest possible majority.
To his credit, Klein is open about the Democrats' need to end the filibuster if Biden gets the White House and a Democrat Congress:
Virtually everything Democrats have sworn to do — honoring John Lewis's legacy by strengthening the right to vote, preserving the climate for future generations by decarbonizing America, ensuring no gun is sold without a background check, raising the minimum wage, implementing universal pre-K, ending dark money in politics, guaranteeing paid family leave, offering statehood to Washington, DC, and Puerto Rico, reinvigorating unions, passing the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act — hinges on this question.
If Democrats decide — and it is crucial to say that it would be a decision, a choice — to leave the 60-vote threshold in place, that entire agenda, and far more beyond it, is dead.
The above statement is an admission that 49% of the country does not want to
decarbonize America," an idea that will bring soaring energy prices, decreases in crop availabilities, expensive cars, and rolling blackouts,
further limit gun sales,
have the federal government involved in setting wages (as if there's no difference in the cost of living from Mississippi to California),
put children in government hands even before kindergarten,
"reinvigorate" unions so that taxpayers can overpay union employees who then funnel the money to Democrat politicians, and
Grant statehood to D.C. and Puerto Rico, an act that guarantees a perpetual Democrat majority in Congress.
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