You guys notice that when Democrats had 60 senators in the Senate they didn’t seem to have any issues with the system our Founding Fathers put in place? Call us cynical but it seems like they only seem to complain about these things when they’re losing …
Like this nonsense from a blue-check who has Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as his cover photo:
I think it's time we started talking about this. pic.twitter.com/pmpzwJawBQ
— max berger?? (@maxberger) November 11, 2018
Oh sweet baby Jeebus.
The US is one of the only countries in the world with a bicameral legislature and a separately elected executive. There are better (more representative and responsive) systems!
Ours was amazing for 1776, but we have 200+ years of lessons since then. https://t.co/7G4vINjdEl
— max berger?? (@maxberger) November 11, 2018
The US is one of the most successful countries if not THE most successful country in this world
Maybe if Max wants to live in a country with a different system in place he should move to one? Just being helpful.
My suggestion to make the US government more representative and responsive:
– Make the House into multi-member districts with instant run off voting (see @fairvote for more)
– Abolish the electoral college
– Reform the senate to make it much more proportional and less powerful— max berger?? (@maxberger) November 11, 2018
Let’s see.
No.
No.
No.
There, fixed it for him.
I have a piece on this forthcoming, but I’ll just briefly say: the survival of the republic depends on reforming our electoral system.
Trump will not be the last authoritarian president if we don’t deal with gridlock, corruption and lack of representation.
— max berger?? (@maxberger) November 11, 2018
Hey, at least he called it a Republic, right?
There is nothing more American than deciding your system of government is insufficiently democratic and resolving to change it.
The revolutionary spirit of the founders is based on the radical idea that we can remake our world to better reflect the needs of regular people.
— max berger?? (@maxberger) November 11, 2018
You know that face you make when you read an incredibly stupid tweet and notice it’s from someone Twitter verified? Yup, just made that face.
Lots of conservatives jumping in to say the founders made a compromise to allow small states to be overly represented. It's true!
They also agreed to a compromises that said slaves counted as 3/5ths of a person, and only men who owned land could vote.
We can do better.
— max berger?? (@maxberger) November 12, 2018
No.
The constitution represented the best thinking on how to create a functional republic at the time it was written. It was also a political compromise that reflected the realities of power at the time.
Much has changed since then. If we rewrote it today, it'd look very different.
— max berger?? (@maxberger) November 12, 2018
No no no.
The American constitution is outdated; when Americans advise other newly democratized nations on writing their constitutions, we no longer use our own as the basis.
We should learn from the past 200 years and make our system more representative. https://t.co/IiTpicFo5n pic.twitter.com/f5Hi2okLLv
— max berger?? (@maxberger) November 12, 2018
Holy sh*t, dude.
And suddenly the Ocasio-Cortez cover photo makes perfect sense.
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