2019 Politics- Life in Trump World

[Lupine]

^No chance of eliminating the Electoral College though until Republicans start losing to it.

[RJDiogenes]

I don't think either party would go for a change that will eliminate the two-party system. It's got to go directly on the ballot.

[Gary]

I don't think either party would go for a change that will eliminate the two-party system. It's got to go directly on the ballot.

Go back to the original Constitutional rules wherein the person with the most votes is President and the next is Vice President. That goes with my other belief the 17th Amendment needs to be repealed. Both combinations will return us to the days where parties couldn't angle for control of the different branches of the Government, people would actually lead, and compromise occurred quite often.

[Gary]

Dave Barry column: Dave Barry's Year in Review: Well, that was something

[Lupine]

^ I haven't read any of Dave Barry's stuff in ages.

Meanwhile, it looks like Australia is in the same boat as we are.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shBwf97O7zk

[RJDiogenes]

Go back to the original Constitutional rules wherein the person with the most votes is President and the next is Vice President.

Except that the Vice President is basically just a spare tire in case the actual President goes flat. Plus which, it would reduce the likelihood of impeaching a president to zero, because then it actually would be a coup, kind of.

That goes with my other belief the 17th Amendment needs to be repealed. Both combinations will return us to the days where parties couldn't angle for control of the different branches of the Government, people would actually lead, and compromise occurred quite often.

It would guarantee that whatever party controlled the State legislature also represented the State in Congress. It would also put more power in the hands of corrupt politicians, with no oversight. Eliminating the Electoral College and instituting ranked voting would put more power in the hands of the people. Which, granted, is only better in principle, but still.

Dave Barry column: Dave Barry's Year in Review: Well, that was something

It's impossible to write parody anymore. Reality now supersedes it.

^ I haven't read any of Dave Barry's stuff in ages.

I honestly thought he was dead.

Meanwhile, it looks like Australia is in the same boat as we are.

The Titanic.

[Lupine]