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Kill Switch

The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy

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Kill Switch

De: Adam Jentleson
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An insider's account of how politicians representing a radical minority of Americans are using "the greatest deliberative body in the world" to hijack our democracy.

Every major decision governing our diverse, majority-female, and increasingly liberal country bears the stamp of the US Senate, yet the Senate allows an almost exclusively White, predominantly male, and radically conservative minority of the American electorate to impose its will on the rest of us. How did we get to this point?

In Kill Switch, Adam Jentleson argues that shifting demographics alone cannot explain how Mitch McConnell harnessed the Senate and turned it into a powerful weapon of minority rule. As Jentleson shows, since the 1950s, a free-flowing body of relative equals has devolved into a rigidly hierarchical, polarized institution, with both Democrats and Republicans to blame. The current GOP has merely used the methods pioneered by its predecessors though to newly extreme ends. In a work for fans of How Democracies Die and even Master of the Senate, Jentleson makes clear that, without a reevaluation of Senate practices - starting with ending the filibuster - we face the prospect of permanent minority rule in America.

©2021 Adam Jentleson (P)2021 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
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important story if you do not know it, but we must go further and abolish the Senate entirely

important story

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I really enjoyed this book. Learned a lot. If you have an interest in history, governance, and / or understanding the sh*tshow that is today’s senate, this is for you. Did not love the narrator though. His voice was grating. The book skipped a lot, too.

Fascinating

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Left leaning but with great historical perspective of how the filibuster came to be. Highly recommend for anyone.

The filibuster must go

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This is the best explanation I've seen yet for how the US Senate has become so dysfunctional and undemocratic. Jentleson covers Senate history from its being as intended by Madison and the other founders, through its intentional corruption by John C. Calhoun and then 20th Century white supremacists such as Richard Russell, to today where Mitch McConnell has fully transformed the Senate into Calhoun's dream of superminority obstructionism. Jentleson takes the reader on a fascinating ride through documented repeated subversion of the intention of the Constitutional founders. This book provides a clear eyed view of how the Senate rarely if ever serves the will of the people.

At the center of Senate dysfunction is the filibuster—a word that did not exist in the time of the Constitutional Convention. The filibuster and its associated rules were and are primarily used by conservatives for obstructionist purposes, standing athwart history, yelling Stop—and most good for the people has indeed been stopped. A major difference in our own time is that there is little pretense to anything principled in this obstruction. McConnell's hypocrisy about slowing or accelerating court nominees depending on whether they suit the purposes of his handlers provides a glaring example of larger and deeper corruption in the Senate.

There are several causes for the broken state of the Senate, among them (there is no polite way to say it) conservative senators being held captive by a loud minority with the mindset of Wealthy, White, Anti-choice Conservatives—for which Jentleson uses the shorthand of WWAC—who in turn are manipulated by obscene amounts of dark money unleashed by the Citizens United decision, which is deployed by billionaires in a successful bid to retain their extreme wealth and influence irrespective of the damage this does to society. Any senators that step out of line become the target of this dark money network, which uses deceptive emotional hooks to enrage the WWAC-mindset super minority against them.

Jentleson concludes the book with some practical steps that may be taken to return the Senate to a functional state that existed before Aaron Burr caused removal of the previous question motion. But first there needs to be 51 votes to remove the filibuster—until then we will continue to have a WWAC Senate.

It's the filibuster stupid

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I really enjoyed this book and especially as it pertains to the history of the Senate and an insider’s perspective that Jentleson shares. A lot of people complained about the narrator, but I had no issues with him. I would have liked to have seen Jentelson spend more time on the current political situation as well as a lot more on fleshing out his recommendations, including specific steps that can be taken to achieve them. Overall, highly recommended!

Fascinating and timely topic

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As a political animal, I thought I’d love the book. While it does a good job describing the history of the filibuster and the consequences of it, it’s not a very exciting book or an incredible read. I’d recommend it almost for reference, but it’s not “fun” or riveting.

Not boring, but not exciting

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the amount of information here makes it complex to swallow, but is truly the brilliance. not a casual listen, this is the information on how and why our system is broken. exceptional

critically important story, amazing depth

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As a political junky, I assumed I'd like this book. The surprise was the quantity of really interesting and well told stories.

Filled with surprisingly interesting stories

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Well written and exhaustively researched analysis of the problem with the Senate, and what can be done to fix it. It is a compelling history of the Senat and of the filibuster - the single biggest obstacle to progress and compromise in our Democracy.
I want to listen again, to soak in even more of the lessons of this history.

What's wrong and how to fix it.

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Most of us are aware of our current situation of gridlock in our Senate. All attributed to manipulation of this body by party affiliation and its leaders.
This is a history of our Senate and the origins of the current state of affairs.
God save us if we don’t fix it.

Revelation?

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