Yeah, but these systems also act as corruption-prevention mechanisms.
They’re more like fault tolerant computations: if both bodies don’t agree on something, then that something must be flawed and should not be applied.
With only one democratic body, it might be faster to pass laws, but they would all be quite flawed because they would lack peer-review from an independent body…
In practice, its the two-party-only system and fptp that screws things up.
At the same time it was necessary for the federalization to happen in the first place. States wouldn’t sign up if there wasn’t an equal vote per state. It’s like the European Council - you probably wouldn’t get Slovenia to sign up to the EU, if Slovenia got half a vote while Germany got fifty votes. But if the EU progresses farther down the federalization path it will face the same thing where the states become less important and equal representation per state becomes stupid.
Yeah, but these systems also act as corruption-prevention mechanisms.
They’re more like fault tolerant computations: if both bodies don’t agree on something, then that something must be flawed and should not be applied.
With only one democratic body, it might be faster to pass laws, but they would all be quite flawed because they would lack peer-review from an independent body…
In practice, its the two-party-only system and fptp that screws things up.
The electoral college is more of a equality-prevention mechanism. One vote in rural america, racist america if you will, is equal to ten in a city.
At the same time it was necessary for the federalization to happen in the first place. States wouldn’t sign up if there wasn’t an equal vote per state. It’s like the European Council - you probably wouldn’t get Slovenia to sign up to the EU, if Slovenia got half a vote while Germany got fifty votes. But if the EU progresses farther down the federalization path it will face the same thing where the states become less important and equal representation per state becomes stupid.
Tough problems, man.
One vote for who will ignore your complaints and oppose everything you care about so they can get an oil sinecure in two years. So important.
Stop voting for conservatives if you hate lip-service.
I did, and after two empty ballots I stopped registering.
it’s hard to know who to vote for if the Democrats and Republicans are both off the table
Elected aristocracy≠democracy