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reining in the filibuster through a rules change, doing something else to break this super majority stranglehold? well, there s serious issues with that. as you know, senator udall, who you talked to on your show last week, are very interested in doing that. a lot of us are following his lead. progressives don t understand how 58 democrats and two independents who mostly lean democratic can t this done because of the senate rules. and this is a dysfunctional set of rules. it wasn t all that well, it was dysfunctional in the 50s and 60s on civil rights, but they broke that, finally, progressives did, and moved the country forward. we haven t been able to with nearly the regularity that we d like to and we re the only democratic country in the world, i think, that has this supermajority requirement to change the status quo. and the status quo always protects the most affluent and the mostç privileged. that s why it s so important to change these rules, so ultimately a majority wo

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