getting a little worried about the amount of likes and questions i'm getting on my tweets about how the us senate works, so here's a short thread about how the us senate works (and why americans in general should care about georgia's federal senate race.)
source: me, google, and like maybe a third of a bachelor's degree devoted to how the government works. if i get anything wrong, please call me out, this isn't my specialty by a long shot.
this thread is for high schoolers, people from other countries, and people who couldn't really get their heads around their civics classes. if you know all of this already, great, go volunteer with your local grassroots efforts to get the vote out. please.
the us senate along with the house of representatives makes laws. this is the legislative branch. discussing what the legislative branch does isn't in the scope of this thread, so here's a song that explains the whole thing.
(if you're an american and you've never seen this video... please tell me what you watched instead, i am both curious and terrified.)
in an ideal world, people would vote for senators whose priorities aligned with their own. those senators would use their best judgment to legislate in their constituents’ stead.
for anything these ideal senators didn’t prioritize, they’d be open to getting courted by people who *do* feel strongly about the subject. this can lead to not only wooing of independents, but coaxing of folks from the other side of the party lines, as it were.
(this is why people make such a big deal about bipartisan legislation - if both parties agree on something, it better be important.)
(this is ALSO why people make such a big deal about pacs, big corporations buying out senators, and various forms of political corruption, but this isn't in the scope of this thread. just keep your senators accountable for their actions. if they don't do what you want, dump 'em.)
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