additionally washington is by no means the whole or sole authority and the thought that political parties themselves would ever not be formed or are dangerous in and of themselves is highly simplistic. Any system where a common platform and some level of consensus is needed will result in some form of political party-like behavior, formalizing and explicitly recognizing this is merely a recognition of the fact. The issue is that there is a structural bottleneck that causes the democrats and republicans to be entrenched, combative political actors. What is needed is to disrupt that and allow for a more dynamic environment where political parties must justify their continued position to their constituents by what they themselves deliver, rather than being the other alternative or lesser of two evils

That’s actually not true

You don’t see different parties working together and United

You see them clawing at each other’s throats and trying to take the nation into their own hands

the two arnt actually mutually exclusive as only one party forms govt, party members can and do cross the floor and theres obviously confirmation bias exists here in that you only hear about the issues where the parties disagree, as theyre the controversy is

its the political equivalent of describing going to the toilet in a book

obviously it happens, as even minority govts are able to pass legislation. It's necessary (unless they want to go to another election), but given its all these things why would you ever need to hear about it?

such enthralling ~~bookkeeping~~ proposals atm include HR 1307 - to provide an online repository for reporting requirements in natural disasters

HR 1305 - implementing the agreement of the conservation of albatrosses and pestrels

and who could forget HR 1267 - to designate a mountain ridge in the state of montana as "B-47 Ridge"?

these form the majority of the work of the legislature and dw, you see the parties working together pretty well because no-one wants to be there discussing such lofty issues longer than they need to

Well in the American sense you would be correct as all parties usually work for the same lobbies and all are pretty much subservient to Wall Street

In the European or specfically the non-western governments for that matter it is a different story

Would you care to elaborate why you feel that’s the case in america?

Beyond that its very difficult to have a discussion unless I know what country we’re referring to

I mean the political environment is different from Europe that’s for sure

People in America politically gravitate around the same enlightenment principles

Whereas in Europe different stances are actually different

in what way?

youll also note that aside from the uk none of the euronations are fptp

given that the uk seems to suffer much the same problems as america this would seem to confirm my statements

MHm

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@Flat chad

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College should be replaced with training of both children and young people to fufill the necessary roles in society that they are interested in pursuing. Very preferably on a small community basis. Obviously people should be educated in the basics of education as well as the societal roles they'll grow to fufill, but the latter should be prioritized and organized by local councils, then carried out by skilled members of the community.

In a centralized state this could be done too but with more people involved in the process.

I think college should be more community oriented, and I don't think people should be traveling long distances to go to college on the other coastline.

That being said, for many careers, there's good reason to move to a different area

So it would be a pain to enforce

Yeah but those careers are often pretty much urbanite-core, working 12 hour shifts writing code or sitting at a desks. If through some miracle we could get rid of a lot of the fat on the job market and take on agarian roles in society it'd be much easier to train people to become a farmer, fisherman, baker etc from the ground up

How is race social 🤔

Colleges already train young people and have substantial small community presence. Not exactly sure how you see that as a change.

There’s also a reason urban core jobs tend to be emphasised and that’s because they’re hyper productive and allow massive scales of efficiency for infrastructure spend. Picking fruit in woop woop requires a massive amount of machinery, automation and management to support anything like what what we expect in terms of modern living standards or requires some hipster earning ludicrously large amount of money that they can afford to have someone picking artisanal spring watered bullshit

In doing that however every mile of road, pipes or fibre is serving rurally maybe 100 people. In urban areas you can go orders of magnitude above that

@Fionn germany does this sort of

You have the choice between 3-4 paths, one of which is a simple internship which actually includes things like software development, one is uni, one is unskilled labor, forgot the others

You also start to specialize way before turning 18, unlike the USA where you get a jew "critical thinking" education till 18 unless you graduate early.

Does America not allow vocational training to go towards schooling credits?

Race is both

@CronoSaturn very rare

Generally no, if it's a more prestigious university (even state schools), generally yes, if it's a shitty community college

Weird. American education is in need of pretty major reform though. That’s pretty common elsewhere