The Coli: Higher Learning Podcast 10DEC2020
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@OfTheCross
chill and light on fukkery... 
Why is my mic so fukking low
gonna have to turn my output up.
Why is my mic so fukking low
gonna have to turn my output up.
Good chatting fellas
Parliamentary system would be better
Parliamentary system would be better
OfTheCross
Veteran
Good chatting fellas
Parliamentary system would be better
If we had that we wouldn't have a U.S.
Although, I absolutely LOVE when the P.M. gets grilled by the Parliament. I wish we had that back and forth shyt here in Congress w/ the Prez
dora_da_destroyer
Master Baker
How so?
If we had that we wouldn't have a U.S.
Although, I absolutely LOVE when the P.M. gets grilled by the Parliament. I wish we had that back and forth shyt here in Congress w/ the Prez
OfTheCross
Veteran
It was a compromise stuck by the Continental Congress in order to get the smaller States to buy into the idea of The Constitution. The US wouldn't be a thing without it. It'd just be a bunch of States that work together sometimes. No real National government.
And if we tried to get rid of it now it wouldn't work either cause those States aren't giving up their power.
dora_da_destroyer
Master Baker
I’ll have to re-read into it as I remember reading why they were avoiding a PM system, but that doesn’t sound 100It was a compromise stuck by the Continental Congress in order to get the smaller States to buy into the idea of The Constitution. The US wouldn't be a thing without it. It'd just be a bunch of States that work together sometimes. No real National government.
And if we tried to get rid of it now it wouldn't work either cause those States aren't giving up their power.
As for now, everyone would be giving up their “power” to better realign representation around key concerns, not monolithic party lines that don’t mean jack. A ID, MS and NH republican ain’t one in the same, they’d benefit from a parliamentary system where they come together around lower taxes and smaller govt. and I’m pretty sure republicans in CA and Dems in NC would love a system where their voice matters. We’re not changing simply because country’s don’t change systems without war/revolt, but losing power isn’t the issue here.
OfTheCross
Veteran
The Avalon Project : Federalist No 62
"The equality of representation in the Senate is another point, which, being evidently the result of compromise between the opposite pretensions of the large and the small States, does not call for much discussion. If indeed it be right, that among a people thoroughly incorporated into one nation, every district ought to have a PROPORTIONAL share in the government, and that among independent and sovereign States, bound together by a simple league, the parties, however unequal in size, ought to have an EQUAL share in the common councils, it does not appear to be without some reason that in a compound republic, partaking both of the national and federal character, the government ought to be founded on a mixture of the principles of proportional and equal representation."
Point #3 in Federalist 62 covers it...
Even the counter-argument in Brutus 16 likes it: "It is indeed the only feature of any importance in the constitution"
There are many things that can be fixed about the Senate, though. We definitely need to consider some reforms
Good chatting fellas
Parliamentary system would be better
There is no better when criminals run the system.
As long as the criminals and idiots run the government, we're f*cked, regardless of the system.
I’ve sometimes wondered what it would be like to mix the different systems. Like a three tiered Legislative with a Parliament in the middle, Congress below, and Senate at the top and parties broken into fourths along the political ideology spectrum....