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I feel like the USA may start to be disbanding
Unfortunately, balkanization may be our only option at this point.
China recognized long ago that all states falter after around 250 years, and that renewal is a natural part of human institution.
The biggest mistake of the founding fathers was to assume the permanence of our institutions was okay since checks and balances were instituted. Really all they do is delay the time between cycles of corruption.
One of the founders thought we should draft a new constitution from scratch every few years and they created the ammendment system specifically so any part could be scrapped and remade in case there were problems. They clearly didn't think it was perfect, just good enough for the time. They certainly didn't expect us to slow down and stop with the ammendments, at least.
I think the flaw there is in assuming that the corruption would first come from the corruption of the law. Thing is they did create a good system to protect the law, but they didn’t realize that’s only just kicking the ball down the road where then its the institutions which corrupt first.
We need an East Rome West Rome split but its blue state vs red state. Each get their own President, pool Military powers
Or maybe nix the president position and just have the house and senate vote for everything like a council.
Or maybe a parliament with proper representation instead of this stupid system you've got going right now.
That's realistically the only fix for gerrymandering. It's a powerful weapon, and I don't foresee the two parties honoring any agreement not to use it.
How does a parliament fix gerrymandering?
I think they’re saying to get rid of it. No one would complain.
Ditch the senate and bump the house to like 1500 members imo.
Keep the Senate, bump the house to like 1500
It should be actually, if not for the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929, based on the 1910 census.
At the time the average was 210,000 constituents per representative, now we're over 770,000 per representative. And those are averages, some districts are much higher and lower.
Congress set the current limit, they can change it. It doesn't require an amendment or anything complicated.
Yeah but why would they dilute their power?
The most obvious would be to prevent the exact situation we're in now. But that would also require more than a handful of them to not be psycho/sociopaths.
The trouble with that is the blue states would be the coasts, and the red states down the middle...
After a century of coups and destabilisation efforts around the world, the empire will crumble from within (nothing new tbh). How poetic!