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Originally Posted by justinstrife
To be fair, some bills are too important to just let a simple majority ram through. Especially when they can effect the entire economy, citizens, and country. Not to mention once a bill gets put into law, it is almost impossible to overturn it at a later time.
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The problem with the filibuster is that if the parties despise each other completely, it's going to cripple decision-making. I'm not 100% sure on the years, but I read that in 1957 the filibuster was used about once a year. In recent years it's been something like 150 times each year. And now that the republicans have 41 votes, who wants to bet that they will block
everything the democrats try to pass? And I'm pretty sure that the democrats would do the same if they were in minority (or not. Looks like the republicans have much better party-discipline).
It's tyranny of the minority.