Lawrence on what they don’t tell you about the Dump Biden ‘fantasy’
Pundits suggest replacing President Biden as the Democratic nominee because they don’t understand the job of the presidency or how conventions work. MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell gives a history lesson in governing in the age of television.
@Jezibaba Step one, though... chuck the electoral college in an incinerator and don't look back.
The electoral college is antiquated and fundamentally anti-democratic. It shouldn't exist.
As divided as the US government is now, there's no way sweeping amendments to the Constitution can be passed.
And since the Republican cult leader got into office courtesy of the electoral college while losing the popular vote, even that common sense solution is doomed.
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@BrazenlyLiberal @Jezibaba Well, NPVIC (the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact) will take care of the electoral college if a few more states join.
They're over 75% of the way there already... only 65 more electoral votes are required for NPVIC to come into effect, and once it does all presidential elections will be determined by the popular vote rather than by the electoral college.
It's very clever.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Interstate_Compact
I would be surprised - very pleasantly surprised - if enough of the right (read red) pending states come through.
That is clever! And I wonder what pending means in the map. Bills in progress? Because that gets over the 270 number if they join. Combine that with ranked choice voting, please. And I’ve always thought a 2-party system just sets up a war mentality so I’m all for either no parties or many parties. (Without having thought through all the consequences of that. I mean, how do you control how many people are on the ballot?)
@IrelandTorin @Jezibaba Check out articlethefirst dot net.
The true first amendment would (still could) have engendered exactly what you want.
@Jezibaba You know what the long-term solution to the US's political stupidity would be?
Electoral, procedural, and governmental-structure reform toward a multi-party system using proportional representation, as well as a weaker presidency and a judiciary less vulnerable to politicization.
If the US had, say, eight mainstream political parties instead of two, and the different parties constantly had to cooperate / form coalitions to govern... we wouldn't see this kind of insanity.