One of the weirdest things about being on this site is that when I took the like American politics pubpol class one of the first things they teach you is how to draw a policy space diagram and in a supermajoritarian system the policy that gets

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enacted is the policy that the 60th person on either side of the diagram (usually left right) will vote for. This is the big policy constraint of Congress, policy is defined by what's acceptable to that 60th person. But like everyone on here who's

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a pundit or a political scientist or a wonk just like.......................................................... Pretends not to know this? Like everyone talks about the Senate election like the Democrats are going to abolish the filibuster, which

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they've literally promised repeatedly they're not going to do which means again vote 60 is still a Republican. Now obviously there's SLIGHTLY more room here than there was before but like they're not going to pass the $2,000 stimulus check because

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even votes that only require 51 votes are still on the 51st democrat, who absolutely fucking sucks all of the time. It's a system literally designed to give you the shittiest result. And this why electoralism is fucking doomed, even assuming you

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could somehow not get couped pulling together 51 votes in the Senate and 218 votes in the House for a socialist agenda is literally impossible before the fucking ocean starts consuming cities

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