My Email To Schumer On A DEMOCRATIC Nuclear Option [View all]

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McConnell will play dirty on Gorsuch and there's no way around this except if the Dems make a threat that scares the pants off the GOP... a rules change the next time Dems have the majority that weights each Senatorial votes as HALF of a states population. Why? Because Dems seem to represent about 33 million more American's than do the GOP so even if the GOP controls the Senate as representatives of states with a MINORITY of the nation's population... they could no longer have the power to impose or block laws wanted by the majority.

This rule change would seem to be permitted under Art 1 and technically doesn't violate Art 5 which calls merely for equal suffrage... and is silent on whether all votes must weigh the same. After all, the voters have "suffrage" but as the EC victory for Trump proves, those votes vastly differ in weight.

This being said I know this would further affect the functioning of the Senate, but then maybe as perhaps the most antidemocratic legislative body on the planet, one where a mere 18% of the US population gets 52% of the seats, the Senate NEEDS some democratic reforms. Are the Dems up to it? What's more important, to see signature Dem programs face an existential threat? Or the rules of an antidemocratic chamber? McConnell has already said for the GOP politics are more important.