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While I absolutely do not like what is happening right now, I cannot agree with your general statement. Could you elaborate? The US has proper separation of th

While I absolutely do not like what is happening right now, I cannot agree with your general statement. Could you elaborate? The US has proper separation of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government. The legislative has a per-state and popular representation. Which part of this is "inherently unstable"? The only part lacking a proper proportional representation (as in a parliament).

marcosdumay 2y ago
The US Executive is way more powerful than the other powers. It can act as it wishes, and consequences only come years later, if ever. Also, the per-state representation doesn't seem to lead to good results at all. As you said, the popular representation isn't proportional, what is a more relevant flaw than anything before this point on this comment. And that is before you get into the details that are actually bad. It's incredible that they managed to stay stable with that electoral system, for example. That said, looks like they will have an almost perfect opportunity to fix some of those in a few years...