She’s an AG, not a justice, and so is appointed by the president and confirmed by senate. Presumably the confirmation is to keep this position from being wholly partisan. But there’s so many ways for that to fail, which seems exacerbated by the two party system we’ve become entrenched in.
The two party system but also the fact that, around the world, we act like 51% is anything more statistical noise. That’s not a majority. We need to start seeing the bar as being 60-70%, 50% is way too low and results in, functionally, less than half the country being represented.
The electoral college is the worse of the two defects and should be ditched first. Or subverted by the compact among states to cast their electoral votes in proportion to the popular vote in each state.
Don’t worry, in Canada our “centrist” party(read: at the moment, incredibly conservative) was elected in 2015 on that promise…and they immediately gave up on it when they learned they’d probably never win again. And then we let them get away with three other times, if I remember correctly!
It’s all such a joke. I even forgot to point out all of our legal bribery that’s gotta go too. At least North America has plenty of woodland to hide in. For now, anyway.
She’s an AG, not a justice, and so is appointed by the president and confirmed by senate. Presumably the confirmation is to keep this position from being wholly partisan. But there’s so many ways for that to fail, which seems exacerbated by the two party system we’ve become entrenched in.
The two party system but also the fact that, around the world, we act like 51% is anything more statistical noise. That’s not a majority. We need to start seeing the bar as being 60-70%, 50% is way too low and results in, functionally, less than half the country being represented.
Yep, and that requires abandoning the first past the post election style. And probably also the electoral college as it currently stands.
The electoral college is the worse of the two defects and should be ditched first. Or subverted by the compact among states to cast their electoral votes in proportion to the popular vote in each state.
Don’t worry, in Canada our “centrist” party(read: at the moment, incredibly conservative) was elected in 2015 on that promise…and they immediately gave up on it when they learned they’d probably never win again. And then we let them get away with three other times, if I remember correctly!
Hurray!
It’s all such a joke. I even forgot to point out all of our legal bribery that’s gotta go too. At least North America has plenty of woodland to hide in. For now, anyway.