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IMO, a government shutdown is a signal of a failed state. It's not a thing that should happen, and if it does, protections should be legislated immediately so i

• vkou 1y ago
  > IMO, a government shutdown is a signal of a failed state. It is not a signal of a failed state. It is a signal of a failed government. The solution to that is to keep having elections until you get a government that will do the work. The signal of a failed state is the voters voting this madness in, and approving of it. A snap election in this case would likely result in more of the same. Check out the congressional approval ratings among republicans of their reps. What they are cheering on is absolutely wild.
  • ethbr1 1y ago
    I would say there seems to be a hole in some legislature systems (Israel, Germany, India?) where the thresholds required for various functions seem unlikely to be attainable with certain vote total splits between multiple parties. And in those times, voters are unlikely to defect from parties just because. Ergo, there's a succession of very weak governments that rapidly collapse. Which doesn't seem great for governance either. Feels like a perfect system would have a better 'there is no mandate attainable, so no one gets power but a shared government is forced into office for minimum X years' numerical escape hatch.
• SilasX 1y ago
  A true government shutdown, yes. But here, all the nation-state-defining stuff (military, border control, police) stays up, and only parts of it shut down.