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The inefficiency of congress is a feature, not a bug actually - inefficiency being the bulwark against populist overreaction. The senate's staggered elections a
by travmatt 10y ago
The inefficiency of congress is a feature, not a bug actually - inefficiency being the bulwark against populist overreaction. The senate's staggered elections are designed thusly so that all of the senate is never fully exposed to the short-term populism of the electorate as the house is.