EP 170: The 68 State Senate
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English - March 07, 2019 00:35 - 52 minutes - 55.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsPhilosophy Society & Culture History history debate conversations news science fiction stories Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Filibuster Boyz
This week we play around with abolishing the senate, adding 5-25 new states to the union, and debate if the senate majority leader is the most powerful person in America. Patrick claims that the US senate is undemocratic. Dennis counters with the historical defense of the senate and how the progressive era gave us the 17th amendment. Patrick wants to just abolish the senate or at least that end the filibuster and cloture. Maybe he would solve all our legislative issues by creating a dozen new states