Maybe we should take the "states as laboratories for democracy" concept to an extreme. Designate some state--I offer you my home state of West Virginia--and is

Maybe we should take the "states as laboratories for democracy" concept to an extreme. Designate some state--I offer you my home state of West Virginia--and isolate it from the current system. Then try the craziest stuff we can think of and see what works. People are pretty risk-averse when it comes to things this big, so if we lower the ante (WV is pretty low, love it though I do) maybe the other 49 states will agree to go along ;-)