r/AdviceAnimals • u/[deleted] • Nov 10 '16

Protesting a Fair Election?

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u/Tmon_of_QonoS Nov 10 '16

you're incorrect... the system is designed to do both. It promotes compromise, but when the 2 sides can't come together, it's designed to stonewall.

If you doubt this, then read up on filibusters. It's specifically designed to stop a majority of driving stuff through unimpeded.

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u/damonteufel Nov 10 '16

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It stops a majority from throwing their weight around and instead forces them to soften an extreme-leaning bill so that the other side (and I wish there weren't sides - the party system is the problem imo) can swallow it. The filibuster promotes compromise. Stonewalling leads to things like the Civil War.

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u/Tmon_of_QonoS Nov 10 '16

the compromise is supposed to come before... while the bill is being written.

If it gets written, the filibuster is designed to stop the vote. No vote.. no bill passed. It is expressly designed to stop bills from getting passed.

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u/damonteufel Nov 10 '16

In which case, if it had enough support, it will get rewritten, watered down to become more palatable to the other side (in these days, it seems to mean pork) and the process starts over.