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[quote=Anonymous]We have a Senate that cannot get things done and is unrepresentative of the population.

Structures that were designed to allow consensus are now being used to prevent anything from being done.

There is no penalty for stonewalling anymore. McConnell can seek to make Obama and Biden a one-term President and Schumer can seek to make Trump a one-term President. Their legislative arsenal is legion.

Indeed, there can be a greater price to pay in many states for attempting to compromise than in just holding firm.

The Supreme Court has become the nation's un-elected supreme legislature, and any time a law is passed that one side or the other doesn't like they run crying to the Ninth (liberal) or Fifth (conservative) circuits, citing their imagining of the Constitution.

A Convention of States seems to be an excuse to cram a Tea Party wish list down our throats. Of course, the rural states fear some sort of NYC cramming their agenda down their throats.

I suppose the best hope now is some sort of two systems, one nation solution where the creation of new states is made much easier (but governed so there are equal numbers of "red system" states and "blue system" states), and states elect to join one or the other.

In Canada there is a fair bit of difference between provinces, and the constituent countries of the United Kingdom have even more power.

Of course the problem with radical systemic changes is something like the Yes California movement where the main proponent really did seem to be a Russian plant. [/quote]

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