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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Good luck getting 70 senators. Despite what you believe, people in this country do want a wall and border security. Senators know this.[/quote]

Except a majority of Americans do NOT want a border wall. So no.[/quote]

I am not so sure. There has been only one candidate whose opening remarks were building a wall, and that guy won the election on his first try.[/quote]

And lost the popular vote by more than 3 million and got historically crushed in the midterms. He is only President because of the Electoral College. But no, the majority of Americans overwhelmingly oppose spending money on the wall. Remember, Trump campaigned that Mexico was going to pay for it. So why are our Federal employees being squeezed?[/quote]

We don't have a system of electing president by popular votes. R expanded its senate majority in the midterms. There is no definitive answer as to whether a majority of Americans want a wall. The only things are definitive -- Trump is the president, R controls the senate, and D controls the house. It appears 2/3 wants a wall. [/quote]
We don't have system where the President + one House of Congress overrules the other House.

And as for what the majority want, they have polls for that.  Polls do in fact provide definitive answers on what the majority of people want.

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In our system, the minority has a say but it can't overrule the President and the other House of Congress.

Polls attempt to predict. Polls only provide definitive answers by the small samples being surveyed. The definitive answers to policy questions are provided by the actual national elections -- a divided government that 2/3 is controlled by the Republicans.[/quote]
First of all, opinion polls that are not about elections tell you people think right now.  They don't predict anything, like a thermometer does not predict temperature, it tells you the current temperature.

Second, national elections do not provide policy answers.  People vote for a candidate they prefer for a variety of reasons, not necessarily any one single policy, and not all people have the same reasons.

Third, when passing legislation, BOTH HOUSES AND PRESIDENT must agree, except in cases of veto override, when it's 2 out of 3 against the President.  When does one house of Congress get overruled? NEVER.  Simply not part of our system.   In the end, divided government requires cooperation, not specious arguments about things that aren't and never were.[/quote]

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