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Originally Posted by Snake Doctor
How is democracy supposed to work?
The people vote but those votes only count if one party doesn't get too many of them?
I'm sure conservatives are crying doom and gloom over this but TBH, it doesn't change much except the speed at which the Dems will be able to do things.
Republicans won't be able to throw as many procedural hurdles in the way to delay things. They already didn't have enough votes to flat out stop things.
With Franken being all but a sure thing from MN, all the dems needed was one defection to get past a filibuster anyways.....and on the biggest issue they'll take up this session, health care, they were going to use the reconciliation process so that a filibuster wouldn't have been possible anyways.
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In a two-party system, don't you find it a little bit odd that a candidate representing a particular party can switch parties just like that? Think of all of the people that voted Republican for him... they basically just got screwed. That's how it becomes less of a "democracy," in my opinion.
People can scream and shout all day long that they vote for individuals and not parties, but I don't believe that for one minute. People vote party line.
He isn't the first or the last to do this, I just find it odd.
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