I hate to agree with President Donald Trump, but why do we put up with the 60-vote requirement (aka filibuster) for most votes in the Senate?

Last year’s election in the U.K. shows that with the parliamentary form of government, one election can quickly change the governing party. Voters were motivated because the vote mattered. It got me to thinking, why we can’t do that? The big roadblock to effecting political change is the Senate’s 60-vote requirement, along with six-year terms with one-third of the states having elections every two years. With our almost evenly divided Senate, if everybody wanted to change the political party in control in one election cycle, you would need 80% of the elected senators to be from the same party. If it were spread over four years, the vote would need t

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