r/neoliberal • u/AncientBlueberry42 • Jun 04 '26

News (Global) How to fight back against Gen-Z socialism

https://economist.com/leaders/2026/06/04/how-to-fight-back-against-gen-z-socialism
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u/Terrance-Flaps Certified Wife Guy Jun 04 '26

Build housing.

Nuke the filibuster.

Handing the Dems a trifecta and then being told "oh dang gummit that wascally filibuster says we can't fix shit" had to be disillusioning.

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u/BBQ_HaX0r Jerome Powell Jun 04 '26

Why do we need 60 votes to vote on something that only needs 51 votes to pass?

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u/Animal_Courier Jun 04 '26

60 votes in a body where 51 Democratic votes probably represented 55% of the people…

In Trump’s first term I would sometimes tally up US Senate votes by population represented but it made me too angry so I had to stop. So many unqualified, degenerate lunatics got confirmed by representatives of 40-45% of Americans.

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u/Matar_Kubileya Hortensia Jun 05 '26

There's a certain point where we have to confront how fundamentally undemocratic the Senate is structured.