How to kill the filibuster and take the senate closer to democracy

Filibuster reform: Avoid the ‘nuclear option’

Reid still couldn’t do it without virtually unanimous support from his own party.

He won’t get it if he tries.

He won’t try, anyway.

Reminder.

The senate is inherently undemocratic and even anti-democratic since it gives such radically superior power to the people of tiny states over those of populous states and since those tiny states tend to be red states in the pocket of the plutocracy.

Even if votes within the senate were by majority rule that body would never have the democratic legitimacy of the house.

That is an argument for abolition of the senate or at least for representation in it to be proportioned to population.

But majority rule within the senate would be an enormous improvement even without such a reform since the filibuster historically has far more often been successfully used in bad causes against the people than good ones on their behalf.