Court expansion - yea or nay?

[Fiendish Thingy]

29. The filibuster is an archaic, Jim Crow era tool of obstruction and obfuscation

The filibuster prevents an up or down floor vote, allowing a bill to die without any senator having to go on record opposing or supporting it. It is a tool to avoid accountability to the voters, substituting a shrug for courage.

Court expansion will never pass with the filibuster intact, nor would any legislation restoring lost rights or repairing the damage of the Trump era.

Think about your wish list of bills you’d like to see passed.

Reproductive rights? Blocked by the filibuster

Voting rights? Blocked by the filibuster

Campaign finance reform? Blocked by the filibuster

Anything that might be passed by reconciliation (none of the above issues qualify) could be overturned by the Roberts court unless the MAGA majority is neutralized via expansion.

Dems must never again govern out of fear of what republicans might do if they regained power.

Kill the filibuster, ram through dozens of progressive bills that benefit all Americans other than billionaires, and Dems will retain the trifecta for a generation or more (see: FDR and the New Deal).

If republicans ever regain the trifecta and try to undo all the progress made under democrats, then the record will be there to hold them accountable at the ballot box, rather than the smoke and mirrors of gridlock by filibuster.