Oh I should have read here first. You know I'm surprised to hear it passed. But you're right, I'm sure it will die in the senate.
Funny how it has gone. Historically the Republicans support the central bank and the democrats oppose it. But on this, it has flipped. Which is just further proof that the party doesn't even matter anymore in most (not all) cases, they just vote for whatever the party head thinks is going to be a win for them.
Well, we'll see what happens, eh?
I think a lot of it will depend on when it lands on their table. If it gets pushed out far enough, the elections could play a big part in it. I'm sure you know that something similar happened back in the day. It was the Republican party that was liberal enough to want to abolish slavery back in the day and the conservative democrat party wanted to keep it.
It flipped, absolutely. But that flip was also more of one wing of the party gaining more control. Before Reagan, both parties had a liberal and a conservative wing. In made crossing the aisle easier and we'd see strange alliances between different the parties on some issues. In many ways, I think that situation was much better than today. It allowed more nuance in politics when there were multiple groups within the same party. These days it seems more like each party head (team captain) picks a side to an issue and everyone falls in, like a good team. As for which side they pick... sometimes it seems like a coin toss and it is hard to find any logic as to why they support one position on issue A and a different one on issue B.
Yeah, that is a really good point. I definitely think it was better back then. At least stuff got done. At this point even if things get done, when the next party comes in power they just spend their time undoing it all.