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@ReubenR80027912 @EricLevitz i.e. The simple fact that assembling a governing trifecta requires three separate sets of elections over the course of a half decade and then requires negotiation and persuasion after the fact is itself the barrier to rapid, radical change. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Jan. 22, 2021 Hibernated

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@ReubenR80027912 @EricLevitz No, the misunderstanding here is historical — pre-McConnell the filibuster was not actually a routine obstacle for major legislative change — and theoretical. The American system already incorporates the Condorcetian insight that time serves as a proxy for consensus building. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Jan. 22, 2021 Hibernated

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@ReubenR80027912 @EricLevitz The addition of an extra-constitutional supermajority requirement — something the Framers explicitly rejected when they wrote the Constitution — serves no point but to render change effectively impossible outside of a narrow scope. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Jan. 22, 2021 Hibernated