All good points! There can be some mal-incentives in democracies when it's in the opposition's interest for things to fail though (read: positioning for the ne

All good points! There can be some mal-incentives in democracies when it's in the opposition's interest for things to fail though (read: positioning for the next election). Imho, that's more a US problem of an overly-visible executive (whoever that currently is), to the detriment of congressional visibility (i.e. 95% of congress supported this, including your congresspeople). From a US perspective, parliamentary style systems, with checks to prevent German/Italian/Israeli-style deadlock when the party percentages don't line up, seem the superior implementation.