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Old 01-08-2021, 03:33 PM   #91
Pete F.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim in CT View Post
ending the fillibuster (Henry Clay 1841), stacking the supreme court (Congress changed the
Court’s size multiple times during the nineteenth century.)
, giving voting rights to illegals (no person with actual influence has called for this), and adding states to get around the electoral college (In 1889 and 1890, Congress added North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Washington, Idaho, and Wyoming—the largest admission of states since the original 13. This addition of 12 new senators and 18 new electors to the Electoral College was a deliberate strategy of late-19th-century Republicans to stay in power after their swing toward Big Business cost them a popular majority. The strategy paid dividends deep into the future; indeed, the admission of so many rural states back then helps to explain GOP control of the Senate today, 130 years later.), have never been seriously considered until now, not by people with actual influence.

we elected the dems, so if those things happen, we deserve it. but let’s not say those are things that have been seriously considered.
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