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by sofixa
1497 days ago
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> If the elected representative cannot get enough votes to pass a law, it most likely means that the law is not that important, or that there is no agreement on what it should be. I'm not even in the US and i know that's quite simply untrue. Almost every single issue gets split among party lines, regardless of its merits. Abortions, vaccinations, climate change combatting are supported by the majority of the population, yet no law on either can really be passed due to arcane rules and the refusal of one party to do anything that might benefit the other ( which is more interested in appearing right and not rocking the boat than actually doing anything). You people need a revolution ( of the head chopping kind, or at least prison/exile) and a complete overhaul of your broken political system. There's no excuse to stick with the first past the post system, gerrymandered districts, voter disenfranchisement, electoral college and the pure temerity around it ( a candidate gets 5k votes more than the other in a state? All electoral votes from that state go to them! ?????) besides the "sanctity" of the current status quo your current political establishment espouses. |
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This is an extremely simplistic, if not outright naive take. Majority might be for “combatting climate change”, sure, but when it comes to actual methods to do that, you’ll find that there is hardly a broad agreement as to what exactly should be done about it.
For example, I support carbon tax, but I’m against directly subsidizing solar/wind energy projects (as we do now). You’ll also find plenty of people who support both of these measures, and those who support only subsidies, but not direct carbon tax. What to do about it?
The current approach seems to be that the Congress, instead of talking it among themselves, making deals and reaching majority to pass a bill, just delegates the job away to bureaucrats in federal agency. As a result, in so many aspects of life, we are being ruled by unelected, unaccountable, nameless bureaucrats, who proclaim “rules” that no majority would ever support. What’s the point of democracy again?
There is, of course, another solution to this, that works much better in practice: getting federal government out of all of this, and leave these things to states, exactly as the authors of the system intended. You’ll observe that the states have much less troubles passing bills about protecting or prohibiting abortion, for example. Why must everything be ruled by federal government, which was never intended to be doing that?