• jordanlund@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    We don’t have the same environment now that we did then. We can’t currently get an amendment to do ANYTHING at this point. Everything is too divided.

    290 votes in the House, that couldn’t get 217 to decide their own leadership.

    67 votes in the Senate, that can’t get 60 to over-ride a filibuster.

    38 state ratifications where 25 states can’t admit Joe Biden won the last election.

    It’s untenable, even on topics lots of people can agree on, like, say, term limits for Supreme Court Justices, or barring convicted felons from public office.

    And those should be the uncontroversial topics…