Maybe, but I don’t see how it could be changed in the short term. It would require support from both parties as well as a popular mandate to do so.
The US is rooted in tradition just as much as the UK is with it’s relics and artifacts of outdated uniforms and wigs, and blowing up the Two Party system seems difficult.
But many interesting articles and research on it. It if for sure, very, very possible. But I think the electorate would knee jerk it to death because Constitution and Founders etc.
Much as happened with the British Empire (though that was connected to war), I think the most likely moment of reckoning will be economic, specifically monetary. The US is doing many things that weaken the status of the dollar as the default reserve currency, and very few Americans have any real appreciation how important that status is to their wealth and prosperity. Once that premium disappears, it will not return.
Yes, I considered that, but without a humiliation and a sense of true defeat I am not so sure there will be any sort of real self reflection, but perhaps increased irredentism and certainly racism, instead. Economic woes often just makes states and empire more volatile and not less.
For me, the Dems’ cartel destroying Bernie’s candidacy will remain the grievous error of the last 8 years. I still feel ill thinking of the Clyburn, Pelosi, Schumer, Buttigieg, Klobuchar antics. And none of that is changing.
We can blame the American people all we want. But the Dems are now reaping what they sowed. As @cynicaloldgit would say, neoliberal hogwash.
Agree, but I think that the discussion of how to perhaps get around that is interesting. Bernie at least seems to be thinking though a framework to do so. And the Fain idea was cool.
By the way, it reminds me of how you have found ways of getting around having to work in the office.
