also because brute forcing constitutional change would sort of wreck the constitutional compact and its just not worth it for those who would expect first order wins "hahahaha finally proportionate representation over a smoking crater"
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I don't think any faction should expect to get what they want out of a major change to the constitution. I think it should be changed because it's broken.
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also, the filibuster is a parliamentary procedural rule that managed to find a loophole to exploit in the way congressional debate is conducted. it was prominent, but not a fundamental structure defined by the constitution.
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the underlying problem being the constitutional structures defined to control the appointment of high stakes positions (particularly supreme court justices) was broken because the Senate is broken.
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I don't understand the point of the word "broken" unless you're suggesting that it in the past it used to function correctly as designed but now (or recently) stopped doing so. When did it work correctly, in your opinion; and why did it stop?
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it never functioned correctly. it was broken at inception. the Senate is one of the reasons legal slavery persisted all the way until 1863 and it caused absurd distortions like states being admitted in pairs (1 free and 1 slave) in the antebellum period.
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it's an institution that is defined by dysfunction. it was, from the start, supposed to be a way to make the workings of government more capturable by elite interests against the interests of the people.
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cant trust the people cant trust elites either so pit em against each other
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