Message from @Catboi
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>I took it seriously and literally but I know you were just mocking me
My point is that the discussion is still happening on a 4 year time block. At the end of the day, this won't be a successful model because you're working against the incentive structure of the modern political apparatus. I think you've got to find a way to reverse that if you *really* want to make some headway, because already I suspect that the thing stopping the apathy tide is the Dems, and I wouldnt want to depend on a strategy that must include my opponent making the worst decisions at all times. Eventually they will make a "suboptimal" bad decision and I will suffer losses
So what's your time scale?
Part of this is just the modern world and perverse incentives. I know one way to fix Congress.
Depends on your issue. Overall? Probably 10 years for review/adjustment periods, since most of these processes will be slow and intangible on a smaller timescale
Reveres the change Senator per every 30k people, not the bullshit we have no.
All the important shit is really local governments and congress
TBH
But your plan would need to be a multi-decade one
Congress can do a lot of shit to fuck with the president
as we've already seen
My plan would be to hang congress and start over
Revert the Permanent Apportionment Act
I dont know about that, given that congress is basically there to limit power in the oval office
get rid of government Pensions
The President really doesn't have that much power
it's that Congress is full of cowards.
I would rip power out of the fed in general though, given political god powers over the 'states.
You need to read the constitution again.
a lot of what we're seeing with the executive actions is just because Congress is full of cowards
I'm talking about a situation in which congress is removed.
I'm not talking about removing the institution just the institutionalized
Ah okay, I misunderstood then
we've got far too many life long politicians who have no real skills.
You should have to be somewhat financially secure or get enough support from people so you can do the work without sucking off the gubmint teat
Being a Lawyers should almost disqualify you from being in Government, but what are most Congress creatures?
I don't know if you've ever worked with Lawyers, but it's not the group I think of when I think cheap and efficient
So to be clear on where I'm coming from more precisely, I think you're going to be continuing to run into these problems as long as you continue to have societal degradation on a communal and state level
Lawyers can be pretty financially secure though
Really the long term plan is fixing Congress, and then dealing with the Judiciary activism.
Didn't trump sign the order banning the lobbyist revolving door?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
it's something
Sure, that helps
At least with the money in politics garbage
As I said, the President is really limited in his powers
and a lot of the stuff with Executive orders is completely untested
Congress is just full of cowards, and greedy for power.
They don't want to reduce the side channel, or enforce their authority over it over fear of culpability and the loss of power when they finally get their president back in office.
Well because executive orders weren't intended to be a primary avenue of political change, I suspect
My point is more so that I think the ability of the president to "Get Shit Done" has been talked up too much. The overplay works well for getting into office, sadly, but the reason why people were apathetic in the first place was because of said pattern of behaviour. It ultimately depends on how the average, largely uninformed voter behaves
Executive orders isn't a clearly defined thing
The fact that you even think that the president really has a lot of power with it shows you've not even done remedial research.