Really, the biggest problem is that any major change, however necessary, has become impossible in the US. So I’m not sure anything is practical at this point. But fixing the government is nevertheless a lot easier on the conceptual level than creating an entirely new one. How about we start with fixing what is actually tearing the country apart right now?
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Fixing the Supreme Court. Fortunately, this can be accomplished with legislation and not a constitutional amendment. There is a lot of work to be done here, but it’s been discussed elsewhere. This includes unfucking a bunch of stupid/corrupt decisions, such as Dobbs, Citizens United, etc.
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Eliminating the Electoral College. This is a huge cancer on the country and needs to go sooner rather than later.
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Eliminating the Senate. The Constitution specifically says:
I would think that all states have zero senators would be “equal.”
Is there anything actually good about the senate right now? In addition to be undemocratic, it seems like a body that exists mainly to prevent anything from getting done.
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Eliminating the 2nd Amendment. Guns don’t kill people; incoherent amendments kill people.
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Rationalizing state and local borders. I think states are dumb as they currently exist, and once we eliminate the Electoral College and Senate their differing populations will do less damage, but at least we can break up some of the bigger once and combine some of the low-population ones, etc.