Coming from Oregon, despite a supermajority in state Congress we couldn’t pass laws for 3 years during Covid because the Republicans just walked out of sessions. Luckily with the supermajority we passed a law last year that missing too many sessions can get you kicked out and bar you from running again. They may have even had to pass a downward quorum adjustment, can’t recall exactly. Search “Oregon Congress walkouts” if you want a primer on what might happen. Point is, the gridlock in Congress that is cynically abused to push through insane fringe perversions so the budget can be funded or our troops be paid or whatever the adults are trying to do, might quickly be the norm by allowing cynical actors bent on “winning at all costs”.
CA is passing some pretty decent stuff–if I’m a right winger I’d love some guaranteed standing so I can start to gum up the works
Ugh it’s so frustrating seeing Dunn-Kruger republicans acting like they own the world wasting years of everyone’s time because they couldn’t handled they lost, why should they have so much power in a place they’re politically disadvantaged in because they’re not popular when they go ahead in other states and take away other’s peoples voting rights. They shouldn’t be able to stall everything like that when they’re a small minority.
The laws were written for adults, the posts are not longer inhabited by them and as such there are loopholes to exploit and when you don’t want to go to bed at 8pm by God you’re going to drag your feet and make the adults suffer. Hence my original question (down voted?) and additional state level concerns (up voted?) as to why the macro and micro matter.
Coming from Oregon, despite a supermajority in state Congress we couldn’t pass laws for 3 years during Covid because the Republicans just walked out of sessions. Luckily with the supermajority we passed a law last year that missing too many sessions can get you kicked out and bar you from running again. They may have even had to pass a downward quorum adjustment, can’t recall exactly. Search “Oregon Congress walkouts” if you want a primer on what might happen. Point is, the gridlock in Congress that is cynically abused to push through insane fringe perversions so the budget can be funded or our troops be paid or whatever the adults are trying to do, might quickly be the norm by allowing cynical actors bent on “winning at all costs”.
CA is passing some pretty decent stuff–if I’m a right winger I’d love some guaranteed standing so I can start to gum up the works
Ugh it’s so frustrating seeing Dunn-Kruger republicans acting like they own the world wasting years of everyone’s time because they couldn’t handled they lost, why should they have so much power in a place they’re politically disadvantaged in because they’re not popular when they go ahead in other states and take away other’s peoples voting rights. They shouldn’t be able to stall everything like that when they’re a small minority.
The laws were written for adults, the posts are not longer inhabited by them and as such there are loopholes to exploit and when you don’t want to go to bed at 8pm by God you’re going to drag your feet and make the adults suffer. Hence my original question (down voted?) and additional state level concerns (up voted?) as to why the macro and micro matter.