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Good. This is one of the greatest cons of my lifetime.
-former NRA member
If these AG’s would go after both sides equally I would have a lot more respect for them because I think a lot of NP’s don’t have enough accountability and their executives take advantage of their positions. It just seems like these are usually politically motivated and going after your political enemies. Go after all crime regardless of political affiliations and people will begin to respect the process more.
Another great reason to move to publicly funded elections. That and the replacement of primary voting with something along the lines of jungle primaries or ranked choice voting would go a long way to encouraging representative government that actually represents the will of the majority of voters.
Joe, I’m starting to understand the value of governments in countries that have to build coalitions to be elected over our system where the winners get to do whatever they want. It wasn’t a big deal when we were more of a center left and right country, but now with our extreme differences it doesn’t seem to work so well. You can’t have a system that only represents half of the people depending on who’s in power for a particular term with each side looking to undo everything the other side did during their term. How do you accomplish any lasting sensible policy in that type of environment.
I don’t think American democracy was designed with political parties in mind, and changes that diminish the importance and power of political parties would be helpful.
The winner take all nature of elections and the electoral college also does not help. It’s a balance between making sure different parts of America feel they have a voice … versus voters in some parts of the country having more of a say than others. Even allocating electoral college votes by percentage of vote won, as opposed to winner take all, would help.
But then part of the purpose of the electoral college was to make sure the people elected only suitable men to the office … and a high number of states that have eliminated that ability from the electors, they must vote for who they’re told to or else they face consequences. I get the perspective of the states, but I think it’s clear that it runs counter to why we have an electoral college in the first place.
I agree with you that changes that diminish the importance and power of political parties would help because I think as a whole we wouldn’t be as far apart as we seem to be. The system with two senators in each state of course makes sure that everyone has a say and I’m reluctant to support elimination of the electoral college because as an example we in Indiana would have zero say in anything, but your point of electoral college allocation is a valid one. Yes, people in a more populous state should have more voice, but I think of areas like Illinois where Chicago runs the entire State and I don’t like that either. When I look at the shift of the power center to the Presidency it’s simply too much power concentrated in one branch of government and I wish that could change. The office of the President seems to control everything and the controlling legislature never disagrees anymore.
The legislature also doesn’t appear do have any ability to do anything but stonewall. I’m sure it was bad during Clinton and GWB but it reached a new low during the Obama administration; the GOP had nothing to offer but resistance they were rewarded with control of Congress. Then the roles swapped during the Trump administration… and swapped back again.
I think it’s largely because the legislators do what the extremes want so they don’t get primaried by the extreme voters who vote in primaries. Make it so that (example) all they have to do is finish in the top two in a primary open to all voters, or that they have to get 50% of the vote in the primary to skip the general election, or however ranked choice works, and many of them will make different choices.