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The American system is basically set up to be paralyzed. FPTP voting leads to two parties, voting for both an executive president and two legislative leaders leads to no single popular outcome, and the Senate exists to stop anyone from doing anything.

Having Mitch be majority leader makes it worse, but you can't solve it by getting rid of him. He's not blocking things because he feels like it; it's his job.




Conservation of status quo is a presidential republic's normal modus operandi. Do you want change back and forth like in Turkey?


I would like the level of change of any Commonwealth country with a working healthcare system.




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