[Esophagus4]

In general, this is by design in The States.

The system is setup to prevent political opportunism and provide predictability and rigidity of the system at the expense of being slower to respond to constituents.

The incentive is still there, it’s just a few years off in the next election.

(That being said… sighing loudly as he gestures around him at all the political opportunism…)

[mock-possum]

Yeah that sounded a lot more viable before we had our faces rubbed in what a political party in control of all the machinery of the country could get away with in the space of one election cycle.