Obviously our constitutional structure is no longer useful, but nice compromise with 15-seat SCOTUS
It's pretty clear that the Electoral College no longer supports the genuine spirit of democracy, the office of the President is given far too much power, and the Senate needs to be disbanded or weakened. Democrats and urban voters have to win by 3% of the popular vote to have a chance at winning the Presidency- that's quite the advantage just to satisfy a bunch of slavers 230+ years ago. And I think positive changes could be made to this system, given enough time and the right circumstances. The population IS moving toward the Dems, after all.
But, many of us would like to see this evolution and a better political balance struck more quickly than decades in the future. I say, after Putin's Little Mitch pulls his ridiculously hypocritical move, when the Democrats win back the White House and the Senate they go ahead and add quite a number of SCOTUS seats. There's no reason to stop at a meager extra 2 or 4 seats- if you're going to pack the court, really PACK the court. Merely adding 6 young, liberal (and hopefully a number of female) judges who could be on the court upwards of 50-60 years each would be a nice compromise where actually fixing our broken democracy by re-writing our Constitution isn't yet feasible. I wouldn't see anything wrong with 17 or 19 seats either, with what the Rebootlickers have done to our nation, but we don't have to take it that far. A 9-6 majority would work well. Then, hopefully we will keep the presidency by nominating strong candidates into the decades to come, even as power in the House and Senate shifts back and forth, so that a counter-packing by the Republicans could not occur.
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