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Scottish Dragon10/05/2018 2:01:33 pm PDT

re: #385 Belafon

Look at the British. Every system has become self-destructive. Evil eventually finds the weaknesses in any system that doesn’t change.

Parliamentary systems have more stability according to observers since one party has all the levers of power and is accountable to the voters for everything. The party in power gets their chance to do their whole agenda and if they screw it up, so be it.

We are the ONLY presidential democracy that has no fallen into chaos and dictatorship (all the South American countries that tried our example failed) and one of the major problems is that we have no clear idea of “who speaks for the people”. Does the POTUS speak for the people or does congress? That division is what McConnell used to his benefit when he said that Obama would never be allowed to fill a seat in the SCOTUS since the American people had elected the GOP to stop him.

But of course…55% of the Senate reflects less than 20% of the American population.

This division did not matter so much when the parties where somewhat heterogeneous. As the parties are utterly homogeneous today, we have effectively broken the government and all there is left is raw power, meaning we are drifting towards the Latin American experience of chaos and strongmen.