02-12-2022, 02:31 PM
(02-12-2022, 08:35 AM)David Horn Wrote:(02-11-2022, 12:27 PM)Skabungus Wrote: Abolish the Senate.
Merge it into the house. Let them keep their extended terms thus preserving the so called "long sight" of the senator, but put them on equal voting terms with the members of the house. A unicameral body would be infinitely more effective.
Make the Supreme Court a rotating assignment drawing from the federal courts. You want to be a federal judge, then you are going to serve a stint on the Supreme Court as well. Draw them by lottery and make the term doable. Under a decade.
Once the Boomers have "aged out" of the political process, I'm thinking politics wont become boring, but will become less an arena for holy warriors and more the home of problem solvers.
If the Senate remains in the future, it will a very different body. If ...
Your idea of mixed terms is a good one I've never heard before.
The SCOTUS is just bad. It has been a political branch most of its total existence, while remaining unaccountable to anything but impeachment. That has to change. One suggestion that I prefer: long but defined terms. 18-year terms with each President getting two picks (one every two years), and a super majority to block them will generate turnover and prevent meddling by a body that must confirm.
As an early Boomer myself, I have to agree. We have been an internally contentious lot since we came of age. I can't see anything good we've done in the political arena and plenty of harm. We need to 'move on'.
We would fare just as well by merging some states (the Dakotas and Montana, Nebraska and Kansas, maybe Arkansas and Oklahoma) while splitting some others (California, Florida, New York, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas). The only states mentioned in the Constitution are the Original 13. Maybe western Tennessee could be grafted onto Mississippi, which would be an improvement for both states. The Senate would be more representative.
That the worst President in American history got three picks on the US Supreme Court will be one of the most tragic oddities in American history. We are stuck with three "Justices" who firmly believe that no human suffering can ever be excessive in the name of all-holy Profit and Class Privilege.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.