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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Both. Although Republicans have taken a commanding lead in the race.

-Democrat[/quote]

This basically correct, IMO. BUT, I get sick when Democrats use this to excuse their contribution. If the Republicans are massively irresponsible, it shouldn't justify the Democrats being any kind of irresponsible, it should mean Democrats have to get massively better or else we will all be in a serious mess.

-another Democrat[/quote]

What do you want the democrats to do? The GOP blocked everything that Obama tried to do. No tax hike on wealthy. No improvement to Obamacare. No Climate change regulations. No tightening the financial rules for banks. No education training. No accountability by private colleges.[/quote]

Both of us said R's have taken a commanding lead.

Trump aside, the biggest problem in the last 30 years has been CONGRESS. They can't work together. Democrats do better than Republicans for sure, and honestly I think if Democrats had a better foil they would be more than they are today. But I am not a fan of all the virtue signaling and moral superiority that we have embraced, it is what alienated half the country. There are a LOT of poor white people in middle America who were ignored. Republican policies did this to them but Republicans are the only ones who kept talking to them. That was a failure to lead, a failure to be present. [/quote]

The country has structural issues in the foundation. Now many of these structural issues can only be overcome by constitutional amendment. There should be a bipartisan election commission that should conduct elections, decide election policies in every state and declare results. The elections should not be elft to the party in power in the states which leads to Undemocratic and arbitrary electoral practices.

1) Electoral College: This slavery era vestige is making the country unrepresentative to its people. The GOP has won the popular vote JUST ONCE(by one state in 20014) since 1988 but they get to decide policy for the entire country despite not having the mandate. This is patently undemocratic and is a top reason for the seeds of mutiny.

2) Senate representation: The senate is an undemocratic institution that is skewed towards states like WY and MT with population of a small town in CA. This makes the country pander to the needs of the rural people rather than ALL CITIZENS equally. Why should one set of citizens be treated superior to another set?

3) Gerrymandering of house districts - No party should be able to gerrymander the districts however they want in the states they control. This must be decided by bipartisan committee that is fair and balanced.

4) The fixed structure of a biparty system: Unless the rules are changed a viable third party can't emerge. There is no option to have multi-party coalitions representing various interests of the citizens in our presidential system. This is a big factor in low voter participation.

5) Automatic registration and election day holiday: This is a no brainer. We shouldn't make it harder to participate in democratic voting.

6) Undemocratic closure of voting precincts, curtailing of voting hours or early voting: Even more undemocratic practices to stop certain minorities from voting. How is this allowed in a SO CALLED democratic country? [/quote]

7) Campaign Finance Reform: No one should be able to finance a campaign except citizens capped at,let us say $10K/citizen. No unlimited and unaccounted money to PACs from wealthy corporations, organizations or citizens (over the individual limit).[/quote]

I have a serious problem with deflecting blame with these structural issues. None of these things are news, but its not like any politician from recent times was going to rock the boat lest the gravy train $$$ dry up. I'll admit the structural stuff doesn't help, but I'm pretty sure we all should be seeking out new faces first.[/quote]

[b]We had “new faces” in 92, 94, 2000, 2006, and 2010 wave elections. [/b]All were corrupted by the system.

We have structural rot in the American political where a flawed and outdated Constitutuon allows unscrupulous politicians to pick their voters and ignore constituents on behalf of big money donors.

The system established by our Founding Fathers is broken and no longer sustainable. [/quote]

The degree of change was too minor. I'm pretty sure we were all BSing ourselves about how much needed to be done. I agree that the current system is unsustainable, but the change has to start at the ballot box. [/quote]

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