NYT: "Cancel the Midterms". Do you agree?

[Spider Jerusalem]

14. Do they?

Depends on the parliamentary system and whether it has proportional representation via party list/single transferrable vote or first past the post. You can't say "parliamentary systems do X" when that's not strictly true and depends mostly on the voting system in place. However the USA is pretty much the only country in the world that has its peculiar form of bastard elective monarchy; if parliamentary systems suck so much why doesn't anyone else use the American form of government? Not like they haven't had plenty of opportunity to adopt it in the last 200+ years.

On edit: American political parties are already effectively coalitions (the Democratic Party moreso than the Republicans); if anything parliamentary government with representation apportioned by population would result in fewer Tea Party nutcases holding the country hostage--due to the way the Senate is apportioned, states representing less than a third of the population control over half the votes, which leads to disproportionate influence for fringe party factions who don't represent a majority of Americans; I don't think you can really argue that this is better.