A Radical Minority

I trust 51% of the United States electorate

 

I trust 51% of the United States electorate over an oligarchy of appointed for life absolutely-immune unelected politicians on the Supreme Court and / or an unrepresentative United States' senate.

 

"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time" and it is commonly attributed to Abraham Lincoln, the exact source is debated.

Please, PLEASE do not be so naive as to believe that a “majority of three-fifths of senators duly chosen and sworn (60 votes if there is no more than one vacancy in the Senate) is required for most questions.” 

The United States’s un-representative senate’s filibuster rule does not assure a credible majority over the feckless democracy.  The senate filibuster assures the negative dictates of any MINORITY will rule the day.  The most glaring example is the 100 years of Civil Rights from 10 years after the Civil War till the 1964 Civil Rights Act.