Comments by "Eli Nope" (@elinope4745) on "War on the Filibuster Stems From a Lack of Comprehension of What the Senate Is About" video.

  1. Normal describes norms, and most people misunderstand that. They believe that the word is prescriptive instead of descriptive. Its normal for people to be ignorant and to not understand what the word "Normal" actually describes.
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  2. Nope, I am betting that you are an expert at something. Imagine that there needed to be a rule on that topic and I come along with strong opinions but am very obviously ignorant about your expert topic. There is an important nuance that you understand, but I am just too stupid to wrap my mind around it, or perhaps I am being deliberately obtuse (its hard to tell, they look the same). Now imagine that I got a lot of friends and my stupid opinion matters, but you realize that my dumb way of seeing things is going to lead the masses to make a harmful decision on the topic that you know well. That shit happens all the time. Just about every instance of stupid shit happens in front of someone else who knows better and is face palming on the inside over just how dumb the public can be. Just when you thought that nobody could be possibly stupid enough to believe the dumbest shit, someone comes along and proves you wrong. Now imagine that these idiots were the norm in your state, and that this happened with just about every topic just about every time. You just might well have to change the rules before the people vote to burn down their houses for fire prevention in "HR bill 0911, The Fire Prevention and Justice for Chemicals Act" (made up for humor, but the point sticks). The rules have to be changed as the goals shift, the population changes, the resource production sites produce resources, the economies shift, etc just about anytime something important comes up and the stupid masses get to have an opinion on it and the reality is nuanced.
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  3.  @Meester_Smeeth  Don't worry, that's normal.
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