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> Many people heavily involved in politics ("intense policy demanders", I've heard them called) are just moderately insane overall, so I'm pretty interested in
by civilized 5y ago
> Many people heavily involved in politics ("intense policy demanders", I've heard them called) are just moderately insane overall, so I'm pretty interested in blocking bad ideas and rapid change.
I won't deny it's frustrating that some things are so impossible in our system, but I also won't deny the schadenfreude I feel when the zealots of today's fashionable nonsense ideologies can't get their way because the system requires so much consensus:
"No, the rules aren't great, but they're good enough. Sorry, you don't get to play tyrant-visionary in this lifetime. Better luck next life!"
- throwaway2048 5y agoPlenty of countries that have simple majoritarian systems, even on what the USA would consider constitutional issues haven't fallen to tyranny.
- hash872 5y agoYes but they also tend to have multiple political parties knitted together in a fragile consensus too, so marshalling large-scale changes across all of the parties is pretty challenging. A coalition partner can always not just say no, but back out of the coalition! The more I study political science, the more I find that the US and the parliamentary systems actually have more in common than people think