re: #32 ericblair

Most of them, unfortunately, depending on what you consider a minority. Any worldwide democracy index looks pretty bad.

The US has a problem where there is a shrinking and increasingly crazy minority is exploiting the zillion veto points in an archaic system where the inventors were pretty leery of this democracy thing, plus an ingrained reflex that This Is The Way It Is and can’t be changed. In a software context you’d call it cruft, and unlike continental Europe we haven’t had a foreign occupation to rewrite the whole codebase from scratch.

The Framer’s original vision collapsed pretty quickly, and we’ve been restuccoing the facade ever since. The appointment of Senators and Electors quickly became the dominant issue in most state legislative elections, to the point that the state legislatures (mostly) pretty quickly set up elections for those offices.