Andylusion
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Meanwhile, "cooperation" gave us the Patriot Act, DHS, TSA, NSA spying on civilians, the abomination of the FISA star chamber, numerous idiotic foreign wars, debt and deficits for as far as the eye can see.Productive bipartisanship can be found in most administrations until Obama took over and the republicans vowed to make him a one term president. That’s when the absolute obstructionism jumped to a new level. It’s only snowballed on both sides since then. Dems are doing no better as the opposition party to Trump. These people should all be embarrassed with how they conduct themselves.
Give me some more that partisanship and "gridlock", thankyouverymuch.
Agreed. Entirely.
I actually thing there is something to be said for the British method.
First campaigning lasts a month.... one month total. You have one month to make your pitch, and then we vote.
Second, I like the idea of having a one-party rule system. Meaning, that no one votes on the president. You vote for who you want in office. Then they form a coalition government, and place one of their members as Prime Minister.
Why do I like this?
Because then you never have the endless blame shifting.
Well it was republicans in congress, well it was Obama as president... well it was the Democrats in the Senate... well it was the Republicans in the House... well it was Trump in the white house....
endless endless blame this blame that, blame Nancy Pelosi, blame Mitch McConell, blame blame blame.
Under the UK system... that coalition government has no excuses. They control the system. At the end of the day, if something does happen, the coalition government has to own it. If something does not happen, the coalition has to own it. No one can say "we would have done this great thing... but those guys stopped us". Can't say that, because they have the majority, and they control the system until the public votes them out.