"Minority Rule"

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(06-01-2021, 01:45 PM)hollodero Wrote: It's tough to condemn either party for using the tools that are available, even if said party would advocate for these tools to be removed.

Imho it's similar to things like gerrymandering etc. - you can be earnestly against it, but you can't earnestly forgo using it to your advantage as long as it exists. Every alleged moral victory coming from such a principled, noble stance would correlate with a real-life loss of influence.

To use another football metaphor, it's like people complaining about the "pussified nature" of the NFL and the rules but then cheering their asses off when that 15 yard penalty flag flies in there and turns 4th and 28 into 1st and 10.  I'm biased as hell too...I'm not saying I"m above it.