America Can, And Must, Change It’s Electoral System
“In the US, there is basically one party — the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to these policies. As is most of the population.” ― Noam Chomsky
It would be no shocking revelation to any citizen of the United States to hear that our political system is dysfunctional. Year after year, we participate in the spectator sport of politics, hoping beyond hope that our elected officials will manage to implement the solutions we need to maintain the quality of life that America has come to embody, only to see them continually stymied by gridlock, bureaucracy, and partisan stubbornness.
As Katherine Gehl and Michael E. Porter explain in The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy, “What should be a problem-solving, outcomes-driven cycle of elections and legislative leadership is instead an industrial-strength perversion that fosters unhealthy competition and blocks the innovation and progress for which American democracy is known. Politics has become the preeminent barrier to addressing the very problem it exists to solve.”
Many of us have come to accept it as normal. Even though it may not be perfect, even though it might…
