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Fire them all
I think somehow abolishing political parties altogether might be better, but that’s probably impossible.
unless I missed it somewhere
I didn’t say it would magically fix everything, just that given how bad our congress is it’s a better alternative. It’s pretty much wanting to replace a terribad system with a moderately terrible system.
It’s like choosing to either get a hand chopped off with a butcher’s knife(electoral college) or get kicked in the groin(direct elections). I’d rather get kicked in the groin than lose a hand.
I can’t say I’d be for a direct election system because we unfortunately suffer from mob mentality and mobs tend to be stupid and emotional. The electorial college is sound in “theory” but it’s the “practice” that gets us in trouble. Having direct elections wouldn’t solve the problem of the two party system because of the majority of country is still divided between lines of red and blue. And technically, we do have other political parties, like the Libertarian party and the Green party. They just have nowhere near the amount of power the big two have, and that won’t change unless the majority of our citizens decide they don’t want to vote Republican or Democrat anymore.
Personally I think we should have direct elections. The reason being is that the electoral college is what causes our two party system. If you remove the electoral college and have direct elections it wouldn’t fix everything; what it would do however is give small parties the ability to grab more political power. Meaning instead of just two parties there would be multiple smaller political parties. The reason why it would be a good thing for the country to have more than two parties is that then the parties would form coalitions with other parties in order to get things passed.
Sort of a “you scratch my back, I scratch your back” sort of deal where smaller political parties not directly opposed or neutral to each other agree to pass through congress to become law.
The other good thing is extremists who rely on partisanship to get elected would get the boot really fast.
Let’s say under our current political system someone says something extremely racist, under our current climate they would probably get re-elected anyhow. If we were to eliminate the electoral college and give rise to multiple parties come next election said politician would get kicked out of office so fast his butt would get whiplash.
Most politicians are either millionaires or upper middleclass with high paying professions before they entered politics. I seriously doubt they’d care about getting a paycheck from the government. Hell, Obama is millionaire and was one before he even became president. Politics is about power, not money.
Shh, don’t shatter her optimism.
We aren’t getting a proper flamewar because everyone here is facedesking far to hard at our government to argue against each other.
Curse you hippies.
China can put things through quickly but is afflicted with somewhat high corruption (it gets worse the further away you are from Beijing) and sometimes will try pushing things through despite violating human rghts.
The EU on the other hand will bog down on just about everything (but at least they keep human rights.)
The US… hey did you hear Gabon had WMDs? They also conviniently produce a lot of peanuts so we could liberate them and benefit from the peanut trade!