# Fixing the US Government **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [August 4, 2024, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fixing-the-us-government/1005238 "2024-08-04T18:13:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2024, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fixing-the-us-government/1005238/1 "2024-08-04T18:13:46Z")
There are a lot of complaints floating around about how the US government is broken, or how our system is flawed that creates or exacerbates the dysfunction. I created a thread over in GD about how to remake our government from the ground up. I’m talking a new Constitutional Convention level of imagination. Obviously, that’s fantasy. I think we should have a sister thread for realistic changes to our government that might actually be implementable. Maybe challenging with the government we currently have and the current officeholders and political parties, but things that could conceivably be implemented under the current Constitution and framework. Low hanging fruit would be making the electoral votes in each state dermined by the popular vote in that state. A larger ask is getting rid of the Electoral College altogether and using national popular vote. What are pros and cons? What other good ideas are there? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fixing-the-us-government/1005238)._