I'm grateful for the WSJ editor who made Sasse take out the part about mandatory Senatorial spouse swapping.https://twitter.com/seungminkim/status/1303507904142680069 …
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Tyranny of the minority.
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You're telling me eliminating cameras, switching to a 12 year term,, and allowing gerrymandered state legislatures to pick the states senators isn't a recipe to fixing the senate?
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And that malapportionment breaks the connection between policy outcomes and accountability
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cf. Thomas Geoghegan: Abolish the Senate https://thebaffler.com/salvos/abolish-the-senate-geoghegan …
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The business supremacists want politicians to be shunned, discredited, and ineffective so that democracy moves to the margins and the market governs.
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The ridiculousness of Sasse’s proposals almost makes it much more obvious that the senate is an inherently broken institution. If you have to create all these weird structures for the senate to function, maybe it shouldn’t exist.
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hmm. i wonder if the obstructionism is just a downstream effect of nationalized politics, narratives, & identities. perhaps someone could do a study of the effects of 2 drink min cross-partisan dinner parties? admittedly, spouse-swapping sounds cheaper & easier.
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The GOP is currently a majority in the Senate, is it not? Seems the problems might run deeper than this.
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I'd say that the Senate is one of, but far from the only, place that the US' problem manifests; there are too many veto points accessible to minority interests and the system is too biased towards inaction.
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To make the senate into a democratic institution it would need to be representative of where people actually live. Current structure makes zero sense in 2020
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