Originally Posted by
JoePatroni
I agree, unfortunately it’s all about winning as opposed to compromise nowadays. People like to deride politicians “doing deals” over steak dinners at Charlie Palmers but if it moves this country forward more than three inches a year, I’m all for it.
Read The Federalist. The framers intentionally structured the government to make it hard to do things. The fear (correct in my opinion) was that if it was easy to "move forward more than three inches a year" one side or the other would take power and completely change the structure of things to the detriment of the other side. The intent was a super majority to be necessary to make structural changes.