In many parts of Europe, it’s common for workers to take off weeks at a time, especially during the summer. Envious Americans say it’s time for the U.S. to follow suit.
Some 66% of U.S. workers say companies should adopt extended vacation policies, like a month off in August, in their workplaces, according to a Morning Consult survey of 1,047 U.S. adults.
No. It’s because the constitution effective abolishes democracy, by ensuring a two-party system.
In the US democracy is limited to one coin toss worth of decision making once every four years. Add to that that their first-to-the-post system eliminates all election power to non-swing-states, that means ~40 of the states have no democratic input at all, and the rest has up to 15 bit worth of democratic input over their whole life time.
Thus politicians have nothing to fear at all. They mess up, who cares? It’s gonna be their turn after the next term limit anyway.
The Constitution doesn’t employ a 2 party system and actually our founding fathers were against it. It has been put in place since then. I do think the electoral college system does cause issues though. We need a ranked choice system or something else where all votes have some value.
The 2 party system was put in place by the incentives/implications of the election system prescribed in the constitution. The founding fathers might have been against it but (a) they did jack squat to prohibit it and (b) they cut out all of the incentives in the election system to enforce a 2 party system.
It doesn’t matter whether the two party system was put into the constitution on purpose or because the founding fathers where by modern standards uneducated peasants who didn’t know any better.
The constitution enforces a 2 party system. Not by legally enforcing it, but by making sure (due to the first past the post system legally enforced in the constitution) that a 2 party system has a massive advantage over any other possible number of parties.
It’s like housing a group of kids in a candy shop and then saying “I really didn’t want them to become diabetic”.
Edit: The electoral college is defined in Article 2 of the constitution.