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Full Mental Jackass@uncle6.org |
because we never stop to ask whether things still make sense like the electoral college or two and a half months between election and inauguration or not expanding Congress since 1929
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Brandon Bird
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Electoral college and lame duck require a Constitutional amendment to kill. So they will be around until the demographics of the country change. If we don't want debates we can just... not have debates.
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@bunshonokai.bsky.social
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The problem is that many of our policies use static numbers rather than formulas, you could say "congress will number the cubed root of the population" (699 vs 535 now) and let it auto adjust every census The 10 weeks makes sense because you are in theory swapping a whole administration. Needs time
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One Who Walks Among the Dead
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My favorite part of American history is "we were the first country to create democracy!" And then the UK went and figured out a better form of democracy, freed the slaves 10 years earlier and without a war, created universal healthcare, and have unarmed beat cops. But hey, we're awesome.
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Mary (geographile)
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Theoretically, the gap between the election and inauguration still works pretty well for building an administration, hiring people, choosing cabinet members, things like that. Four years ago, Trump's staff members were sort of surprised it was required. Now, they are beyond ready.
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Kevin Bunch
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Congress and the Supreme Court numbers being unchanged for so long is truly mad given how much more populous the country is vs the 1920s and what, 1870s, respectively?
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Joanna Rifkin they/them
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Well sure, 1929 was a great year for America. No dramatic national downturns. Great point to fix things going forward.
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