I am hereby proposing that we eliminate, in a legal fashion, the United States Senate. In its place we establish a Unicameral legislature. The Minnesota Legislative Reference Library has issued guides on the subject. I haven’t even skimmed through them yet, but I assume the issues would be comparable at a national and state level.
We have now reached the point where the Supreme Court of the United States has little to no credibility with much of the citizenry because of political chicanery and bias. Congress has been in gridlock for too long, and we’re at a point where the Senate refuses to change its rules the allow legislation to be passed by a majority. Meanwhile, we’ve had several presidents serve who have won less than the majority of the popular vote. NO DAMN WONDER WE’RE AT EACH OTHERS’ THROATS! We’re constantly being conned and screwed by our “political leaders.”
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As an alternative, the Senate could modify its rules and eliminate the filibuster. One Senator should not be enabled to bring progress to a halt. That makes US ruled by men, not laws, and causes our shining city on a hill to slide downhill and sink in the swamp. If regulatory agencies are subject to regulatory capture, too many of our legislative bodies have been subject to corporate/oligarchic capture. It’s time to muck out the barns the politicians have fouled, unless they undertake the cleanup themselves.
A Poem for the Cruel Majority
The cruel majority emerges!Hail to the cruel majority!They will punish the poor for being poor.They will punish the dead for having died.Nothing can make the dark turn into lightfor the cruel majority.Nothing can make them feel hunger or terror.If the cruel majority would only cup their earsthe sea would wash over them.The sea would help them forget their wayward children.It would weave a lullaby for young & old.(See the cruel majority with hands cupped to their ears,one foot is in the water, one foot is on the clouds.)One man of them is large enough to hold a cloudbetween his thumb & middle finger,to squeeze a drop of sweat from it before he sleeps.He is a little god but not a poet.(See how his body heaves.)The cruel majority love crowds & picnics.The cruel majority fill up their parks with little flags.The cruel majority celebrate their birthday.Hail to the cruel majority again!The cruel majority weep for their unborn children,they weep for the children that they will never bear.The cruel majority are overwhelmed by sorrow.(Then why are the cruel majority always laughing?Is it because night has covered up the city's walls?Because the poor lie hidden in the darkness?The maimed no longer come to show their wounds?)Today the cruel majority vote to enlarge the darkness.They vote for shadows to take the place of pondsWhatever they vote for they can bring to pass.The mountains skip like lambs for the cruel majority.Hail to the cruel majority!Hail! hail! to the cruel majority!The mountains skip like lambs, the hills like rams.The cruel majority tear up the earth for the cruel majority.Then the cruel majority line up to be buried.Those who love death will love the cruel majority.Those who know themselves will know the fearthe cruel majority feel when they look in the mirror.The cruel majority order the poor to stay poor.They order the sun to shine only on weekdays.The god of the cruel majority is hanging from a tree.Their god's voice is the tree screaming as it bends.The tree's voice is as quick as lightning as it streaks across the sky.(If the cruel majority go to sleep inside their shadows,they will wake to find their beds filled up with glass.)Hail to the god of the cruel majority!Hail to the eyes in the head of their screaming god!Hail to his face in the mirror!Hail to their faces as they float around him!Hail to their blood & to his!Hail to the blood of the poor they need to feed them!Hail to their world & their god!Hail & farewell!Hail & farewell!Hail & farewell!
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