Our Government is broken, what to do? [View all]
Ok, I am not a constitutional lawyer so maybe I am wrong. But, I did get an "A" in high school Civics and college Political Science and our government seems broken to me.
In general I understood we work from a majority rules system and from the philosophy the needs of the many out weigh the needs of the few. True, occasionally there may rise a situation where the SCOTUS may say even if the majority want something the rights of the minority will over rule but overall majority rules.
It seems over the last 3 or 4 decades the "rules" in the two division of the legislature have brought the law making process to a near complete halt. As it is now 20 - 25% of the 54% of the house has closed the government and threatening to not raise the debt limit because the Speaker of the House (tea party) won't allow a vote.
Also, the way the districts are drawn many have given outcomes in the general elections, the representatives are more worried about the primary so they must support the extreme. As I understand from what I heard on NPR, even though in total more Americans voted for Democrats we have a house with a Republican majority.
Lastly, we have one party which doesn't understand what it mean when you loose an election. If they don't win the White House they spend the next 4 or 8 years attempting to get that president out or stop everything they do. Compromise means you do what they want even if they don't represent the majority of Americans.
I call this a broken government.
What do we do?
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