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[-] neptune@dmv.social 45 points 1 year ago

The house is only 50.8% republican.

When the senate is 50/50 they come to compromise favoring the party who has the white house/vp/tie breaking vote.

When the house is effectively 50/50 they apparently shut the government down for weeks on end.

The country voted 49/47 for Democrats so we will all held hostage while the minority figures out who their leader is? Even if their new leader was so great bills would have to pass the Senate (where the minority generally thinks they are too extreme) and the white house where again the opposition controls that part of the government.

Maybe the founders weren't all knowing after all.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 18 points 1 year ago

Any system is vulnerable to bad actors. The checks and balances in this case are not voting for idiots, but

[-] neptune@dmv.social 4 points 1 year ago

The point isn't that they were morons, the point is that times change. Mistakes are made.

[-] madcaesar@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

The founders sadly never could predict that one party would become Unamerican and 40% of the populace have their brain rotten away by lead.

[-] redballooon@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

Considering the time they lived in, a strange oversight.

[-] tryptaminev@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

iirc Geoerge Washington already said the system is fucked and the effective limit to two parties will make it fail eventually.

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