• hogunner@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Um, no. The entire system is broken; the GOP is just the natural result and most obvious symptom of that breakage.

    • Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      The fact that land gets more importance than people in our system is a big part of why Republicans have as much power as they have. We need to at least fully industrialize our system so that having a ton of land in an empty state doesn’t give you the right to dictate national policy.

      Sadly, this will require a Constitutional Convention, which will under our current Constitution gives even more power to these states.

      Interestingly the article governing Constitutional Conventions is under Article 5. I really hope we don’t have two of those at once. Things will get very confusing.

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        1 year ago

        Conservative extremists are currently pushing for a Constitutional Convention, because they’ve gerrymandered enough/almost enough (depending on your particular opinion on “enough” in this radical scenario) state governments to allow them to recraft the Constitution as they’d prefer it to be.

        This would be an unmitigated disaster.