That’s just a fact. The whole US political system should be scrapped and re-developed to make it a democracy.
You can fix the american democracy by upgrading it ranked choice voting, abolishing the electoral college, ending citizens united, giving all prisoners the right to vote, reforming the supreme court, make Washington DC and Puerto Rico states.
Eliminating the senate, massively increasing the size of the house, making registration automatic, executing anyone caught disenfranchising voters, etc
Eliminating the Senate might seem like a good way to reduce the outsized influence that voters in smaller states wield, but the Senate helps keep those states in the union.
Also, the death penalty should be eliminated, not expanded.
We obviously need to address the fact that our government doesn’t represent the country, but drastically increasing the ability of larger states to ride roughshod over the interests of smaller states is not a recipe for stability.
The death penalty thing was said tongue in cheek. And we already settled the whole can you leave the union thing a little while back.
Death penalty only for white collar crime?
Don’t kill. Killing is wrong. No, seriously, it is so so bad. Don’t even think about it, because if you kill, we will kill you right back buster!
the Senate helps keep those states in the union.
In that case California should secede; we’ll be better represented that way.
the Senate helps keep those states in the union.
Oh, so we need the Senate to keep such valuable states as Alabama, Mississippi and Florida in the union?
This is like arguing the need for the Senate filibuster, because of how important it was to such orators as Strom Thurmond and Richard Russell.
I’m fine keeping the Senate on the condition that if you suppress voting for a senator, he can’t be seated.
… Introducing proportional representation and majority elected president, enfranchising all people, ending politically appointed judiciary, making intentional lies with the intention to mislead the public a criminal offence…
Eliminating the Senate is not a good idea. Maybe just fix it by populating it in proportion to the states citizens?
And do yourself a favor and finally abolish the death penalty. It does not become to a civilized country.
Isn’t that just the house?
Have a look at the German system. They are also bicameral. Their primary house, the Bundestag, is like the US Congress. The secondary house, the Bundesrat, is representing the 16 German states. The votes the representatives there cast are bound to decisions of their State governments. So the state government decides yes or no on a question, and all representatives of that state are bound to that decision of their state.
This way, the first chamber represents the overall interests if the people on a federal level, while the secondary chamber represets state interests.
Yeah, I don’t think the state governments in the deep south represent any of the interests of the citizens of the south, anymore than Vladimir Putin and his oligarchs represent the interests of the citizens of Russia.
The deep south are just failed states we’ve let limp on since we lost the stomach for reconstruction and left them in the 19th century.
I thought PR just hasn’t gotten 51% in favor of statehood?
you can’t fix the foundation of blood and suffering that the house was built on top of
Show me one government not built on a pile of bodies
I can’t! :) all governments are fucking evil and must be destroyed
And thus begins the new pile of bodies
No, but you don’t understand, this time it will be justice because of we’re killing the bad ones, well, and anyone who disagrees, that’s different!
Remember that you enter a revolution with the culture you’ve got, not the culture you want. Think on that very carefully before you roll those dice.
It would be so cool to be a part of a true democracy.
I seriously think that all constitutions should have expiry dates.
Do you have any idea how many rich and powerful people would dream of such power vacuums to take advantage of?
This comment reads like it was written by the Koch foundation.
And exactly how peaceful do you think the scrapping of the entire system will be? Will you sign up for the inevitable fight? Or do you just like talking big?
Anyone with a brain understands that would only bring further pain and death.
/u/beaver gets what you don’t: https://lemmy.ca/comment/11298416
I would just like to point out that it can still get so, so much worse.
depends on perspective. if you’re a billionaire, it’s right on track.
Wouldn’t it be, like, 50 failed states? 🤔
The term state at the international level usually refers to a nation-state. Nations generally have different terms like state, territory, province, etc for their internal divisions, hence state can refer to both meanings.
No, United States cannot be a state, that’s just grammatical nonsense.
States are defined by sovereignty over territory and a group of people. They are what we commonly call countries. [1] The United States, Great Britain, and Nigeria are all examples of states
https://chass.usu.edu/international-studies/aggies-go/nation-states
QED. I stand corrected.
To bad for you, it’s all just grammatical nonsense!
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My pedant boner is in the stratosphere. I like you.
Do you write for Letterkenny?
For fuck sake… : https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/state
“state noun (COUNTRY) C1 [ C or U ] a country or its government: The drought is worst in the central African states. member state Britain is one of the member states of the European Union. The government was determined to reduce the number of state-owned industries. Some theatres receive a small amount of funding from the state. affairs/matters of state formal His diary included comments on affairs/matters of state (= information about government activities).”
Still no, United States are STATES (plural), not a State (singular).
The United States is a state. The united states that make it up are states, in a different sense of the word. The brain hurt is happening because you’re using two different definitions of the same thing really close together.
Are you retarded?
No, are you? (Wtf, is this reddit or something?)
“The US is a failed state” is just grammatically incorrect sentence.
No it fucking isn’t, because the phrase “The United States” is a proper noun referring to a singular entity.
Yes, but some of the states are more failed than others.
glares at Florida
Florida really saddens me, because environmentally it is such a great place (of course there are exceptions as always).
The weather is 90% awesome. The scenery is beautiful. The pace of life is nice. The roads are smooth.
And it was getting more progressive too.
Unfortunately that shithead desantis has ruined it.
Come check out Oklahoma! Where you can be both the Secretary of Transportation and head the Turnpike authority (at least for a year, until the attorney general gets off his ass)! You can opt out of complying with state law (the Open Meetings Act) if you really really want to bulldoze thousands of family homes to build a toll road and don’t like that people have opinions on it.
There’s no guarantee that your kids teacher is even background checked, much less that they are qualified to teach the subject they are teaching! Thousands of dollars in COVID funds earmarked for education went to buying Christmas trees and TVs. (State superintendent and Secretary of Education also got to be positions held by the same person - with two paychecks!) We also are trying to be national leaders in ignoring the first amendment and establishing a religious online charter school!
I mean, it’s still in the top 30% of nations to live in. The US is nowhere near its potential for a great place to live but it’s still above average.
I don’t entirely disagree but I think at this advanced stage, it’s largely due to inertia.
advanced stage
this country is still very young
By previous countries’ standards. I meant advancement in terms of damage done, not strictly timewise. Humanity is speedrunning mass extinction, and America has been at the forefront.
The United States is a cruel mockery of a developed nation especially when looking at the Mississippi
What’s up with Mississippi?
The state has the highest obesity rate, is the least developed state, the life expectancy is at age 74.4, has the lowest high school graduation rate, one of the lowest tax rates in the country, one of the lowest unionization rates, the state government has been under republican trifectas since 2012.
Mississippi has been known for poverty and a lack of education and safety standards for quite some time now, not to mention the rampant sexism and racism that goes hand in hand with said lack of education
These vegetables have spoiled.
Incorrect.
The US are 50 failed states.
Nah, California could happily carry on by itself.
But every other state despises that we can. It’s a real nut punch when other states are jealous of our GDP.
Ok, but now who would bring back the Aztec empire?
Yeah right, I’ll only believe this it it comes from the Globgomgabgalab. He is the yeast of thoughts and minds.
You helped veggietales. You tripe rotted the brains of many young Americans.
Vegetables is murder!
