[llm_trw]

Decentralise government so a single election doesn't destroy everything.

In short: states rights.

[EdwardDiego]

Or, reform your Presidency to be a constitutional role only, with executive power devolved to the party or parties of your elected representatives that is able to show the head of state that they have the numbers to govern.

E.g. like the President of Ireland, or the King of England (via the Governor General proxy) in countries like Canada, Australia, New Zealand.

Also, the Electoral College is an archaic anachronism, and may I recommend a system of proportional representation?

Devolution to "states rights" is exactly that, a devolution.

[llm_trw]

What works for a country the size of a New York neighbourhood doesn't work for a country the size of a continent.

[duskwuff]

Alternatively: we need to rein in the powers of the presidency. Right now we've got a dynamic of "the president says what to do and the legislature obeys" (or, recently, "the president does stuff on his own"); we might be better off with "Congress decides what to do and the president makes it happen".

[llm_trw]

California has half the population of Germany and twice the GPD.

We can't pretend the US is some dinky country in Europe that can be ruled the same way.

[SubiculumCode]

The problem is that the president can direct funding to primary a congressman. There are ways to make that harder to do, but they have to try

[dragonwriter]

Oh, so Congress makes law and the President sees that the law is faithfully executed?

We should definitely amend the Constitution to include that.

[_heimdall]

Interesting to see this come up so often I. the context of the Democratic party. It sure seems like our two parties have flipped again.

[llm_trw]

It's not terribly interesting. There have always been two strains of thought for the Democrats in the US. Once has been that we must move the whole country in the right direction kicking and screaming - this has been the ideology that has been in ascendency since Kennedy. The other that we must be allowed to be as progressive as possible without interference from the Federal government. That's not been in vouge since the end of the new deal.

I'm completely in the second camp and would move back to the US if it were possible to get it adopted at the national level.

[wyager]

To Republicans' credit, they have not flipped on states' rights even when they dominate DC. Maybe this is a good time for everyone to (pretend to) be aligned on states' rights and ram through some measures to that end.

[amanaplanacanal]

There are inklings of a change there. You can see it in things like proposing to prevent women from traveling to another state to get an abortion, or forcing states to assist the federal government with immigration enforcement. I expect we will see more of that if it helps them get to their desired policy goals.