The only reason either party has to maintain the filibuster is precedent, to restrain the other party the next time the other party wins. If the filibuster is the only thing standing between the Republicans and a dictatorship where they will never lose power again, then what’s stopping them from getting rid of it themselves, right now even?
Because you will always have a risk people voting out the party in power when you have very bad election year like post bush 2008, and then democrats would pass universal Medicare, raise minimum wage, could pass abortion law federally, and everything they don’t like. And they know that a lot of it would be popular once it’s in place and be harder to get rid of. It works both ways and it rewards centrists.
Without it they would have passed a anti voter bill that would guarantee they never lose this year.
So why don’t the Republicans get rid of it then?
The only reason either party has to maintain the filibuster is precedent, to restrain the other party the next time the other party wins. If the filibuster is the only thing standing between the Republicans and a dictatorship where they will never lose power again, then what’s stopping them from getting rid of it themselves, right now even?
Because you will always have a risk people voting out the party in power when you have very bad election year like post bush 2008, and then democrats would pass universal Medicare, raise minimum wage, could pass abortion law federally, and everything they don’t like. And they know that a lot of it would be popular once it’s in place and be harder to get rid of. It works both ways and it rewards centrists.
I don’t think you read this part:
That’s the tension, but the people in power are rich and don’t like risk. That’s a situation where you win or you die.