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It's absolutely possible to have a strong federal government without getting into the shit show we have today. The problem is when federal authority gets distilled into a handful of people and detached from popular representation or recall.
"Getting the feds to back off" has been the laughable fig leaf that the right has used to dismantle the normal operation of our government for 200+ years. Now you're buying into balkanization when they've enacted their coup?
We don't need more limits on the only structure that can mitigate/navigate climate collapse; the only thread that historically has opposed the oppression of the deep south; the only speedbump that could even moderately oppose the hegemony of the ultra wealthy.
The US constitution was designed to entrench the power of the white landowner class, and that has remained true in spite of the consistent creep of federal authority. It's just not possible to mount any opposition to the massive weight of their capital in any other way.
So no, don't restrict the Fed's authority to do any of that. Just give us the tools to get real, fair representation and hold our representatives accountable. Every other needed reform and restructuring could be done with no problem once we have that.
that won't solve the problem. people just have very different views of how the path should continue forwards. you're not going to unite that. if you represent fairly, you might end up with a federal government that is 50% democrat and 50% republican, but that just means that everybody only gets half of what they want.
That is such a black&white way of thinking, so FPTP of you, as a non-🇺🇸: proportional representation ensures that by partisan bill are the defacto, law starts to hing on convincing other parties. Sure there will be exclusionary stances but it often comes with people voting for a different party that’s similar to yours
No, i don't think you get what i meant, let me explain again:
If the democratic areas want taxes to be at 50% for the rich and the republicans want them to be at 0%, then a middle way would be to set them at 25%. But this way, everyone is discontent.
A better system would be to set them to 50% in the democrat areas and to 0% in the republican areas. For which you would have to have two distinct legal regions.
If you poll on actual policy and don't couch it in ideology or partisan framing, the vast majority of people agree. From basic economic policy to abortion access to housing regulations to climate action, ~70% or more are in agreement. And keep in mind this is with a constant media barrage promoting division.
In a better system we wouldn't be bound to just D and R. It would be something to more accurately represent the nuances of the voter (probably an evolution of the coalition systems in newer Democracies). You end up those popular policies as the core of governance with the outer fringe policies on the political curve getting less sway. Compromise is a part of any system of governance except maybe despotism.
The right and Republican party is completely full of shit on everything, they believe in nothing. But the Constitution did set the country up for states to be like their own nations, that founding Charter gives the feds the authority to regulate interstate commerce, deal with foreign Nations and treaties, and that is about it.
That the right has cynically used that to further their own interests does not mean you should support the opposite of that. It is beyond clear that the federal government is a monster. It already was and now will be much worse. If you want a federal government with the power it has now maybe you should put forth a constitutional amendment because they do not have the authority to do the shit they are doing.
Yes and when the Constitution was written they were basically 13 semi-sovereign states who were such nascent politicians that they couldn't imagine a government without a king (just renamed president). The constitution should have been entirely reworked after the Civil War and probably needed more major revisions as the population, topography and demographics of the nation changed.
The state of our federal administration is fucked because the constitution is fundamentally flawed. If it was written for a modern world, the federal government would have the foundation to weather this assault and possibly the teeth to nip the rot in the bud. At the very least it wouldn't be so rigid that people like you feel the need to cling to a centuries old piece of paper as infallible.
Using a maliciously broken system as self evidence for its abandonment and prohibition is absurd. There's nothing inherently more oppressive or evil about a federal government than a smaller state government. If you're not considering a restructure to address the root flaws then you're just whinging over which boot you'd prefer to kick in your door.
It is the system we have, it is better than most other systems in the world, and there is no way to change it for the better at this point in time. Supporting it being perverted into something else will lead to other perversions like we are seeing right now.
You are falling into the Trap of supporting everything the right wing purports to support. I imagine you also defend everything to the hilt that the right wing attacks. While they are trying to make those things worse, but those things have legitimate problems of Their Own.
Like Federal agencies, all of which are failing in their statutory duties. No offense but you guys are all fucking hopeless.