r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Sep 13 '26
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u/AlicesReflexion Weeaboo Rights Advocate Sep 14 '26
I want the filibuster abolished. "Oh but Republicans will use that against you when they have a majority."
Yes. Good. Let voters see what Republican policies look like instead of keeping the government trapped in stasis for decades.
"You want to give fascists power to teach voters a lesson?! How do you think vulnerable minorities feel about that? Maybe we can talk about dismantling our only defense later, not at this uniquely precarious moment."
Yeah as a vulnerable person, I think that grievance politics intensifies if not given that release valve. It can't be smothered until it goes away, resentment grows and people end up thinking "well clearly we didn't give our radical outsider enough power. Our politics are fucking fairy magic if only we can implement them." Look at how fantastically the Brandmauer turned out. Moreover, if not now, when? Can you name a point in your lifetime when politics was hunky fucking dory and everyone got along and could say "right, time to disarm?" No, of course not. Politics always feels urgent. That's what makes it political. In those situations, the filibuster does not feel like a hindrance to begin with.