#1467 Majority Rule with Lindsay Chervinsky

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🗓️ 2 November 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

We welcome back Dr. Lindsay M. Chervinsky to discuss her recent post "How Did the Senate End Up With Supermajority Gridlock?" She and Clay talk about the filibuster and congressional gridlock which they both feel is the product of decades of legislative machinations and not what the Constitution, nor the framers, intended.

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Mentioned on this episode: "How Did the Senate End Up With Supermajority Gridlock?"

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0:00.0	Good day Thomas Jefferson our podcast listeners as always. Thank you so much for listening. We appreciate it
0:06.8	And we also appreciate those of you who have chosen to support the show
0:12.9	It means a great deal to us both Clay and I do this because we want to not because we're forced to or paid to but
0:21.1	I will say again those of you who have decided to support the show we so appreciate it
0:27.1	You can go to Jefferson our calm click on donate. There's a number of different ways to do it
0:32.0	And I'll leave it at that and good day to you Mr. Jenkinson. Hello my friend David Swinson the semi-permanent guest host of the Thomas Jefferson hour now in your
0:41.1	17th year of semi-permanent guest that can't be right can't be right. It simply can't be right
0:47.3	How have we done it this long? And we know we we failed to mention in
0:52.2	We're talking about the US Constitution that my online course starts almost immediately and
0:57.4	People can still sign up for it by going to Jefferson hour dot com. I'm very proud of this
1:01.9	We this is the chance to really talk about our troubled
1:05.9	Constitution and whether it can be fixed or whether we're in you know, we hear the possibilities
1:11.0	Either we're just kind of whining about a bad patch in American political life and things will get better as they often do
1:19.1	Or the system is fundamentally broken if it's fundamentally broken then we can try to fix it in one way or another or we can
1:27.2	Scrap it and try again
1:28.7	But the idea that somehow the American mood is going to cheer up and a new era of good feelings is about to appear
1:35.9	That seems very illusory to me and so when I look at this nation where for example just take infrastructure
1:44.2	We desperately need to spend a very large amount of money and human resources to rebuild the American infrastructure from our power grid to our airports
1:55.3	To our roads and bridges
1:57.3	And then there's the soft infrastructure of cellular service and parental leave after pregnancy and so on
2:05.7	Everyone gets it people disagree about the scope and the amount of money we should give to this
2:10.9	But everyone gets it that the great nation you know
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