> I'd expect a democracy to very quickly enact laws that everyone agrees with and then sit deadlocked forever on everything else. The situation we face in the w

> I'd expect a democracy to very quickly enact laws that everyone agrees with and then sit deadlocked forever on everything else. The situation we face in the world doesn't change very often - it is mostly repeats of things that we've seen in the past. I'm not sure if this is satire or not. Absent election reform, that's certainly not what you're going to get in the US, in a world with an increasing pace of change.