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Originally Posted by WichitaDM
For those of you in the **** you crowd, how long do you think passing things like DACA/M4A would take with zero votes from Republicans and the right leaning democrats? You would need 60 progressive senate seats, a house majority and president. I don't see 60 senate seats happening again for a very very long time. Maybe not again in our lifetimes with the structural advantages built in there.
Not to completely change the subject but I agree with the above, and wonder at this point, if the Dems take control of the Senate in a 2020 Blue wave, why should they not just alter the rules and eliminate the filibuster? This is exactly what Republicans would do in this situation and IMO the right move. Dems are always afraid about doing stuff like this because "OMG what would happen next time Repubs take win an election?" (hint they will eliminate it anyway when it is to their advantage), or even worse "OMG we have to appear to be the reasonable adults in every debate?"
Filibuster isn't gaining the Dems anything anyway. It didn't stop the tax cut. It didn't save the ACA. It can't be used to stop unreasonable or rapist Supreme Court justices. I would rather live in a world where whoever can take all three branches gets their policies and has to live with the results. Without filibuster they can eliminate all this stupid drama over debt ceiling or funding government when they are in power.