Who else would like politics to be humdrum?

[Eric the Green]

(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.

I agree with your first paragraph, but noticing the strong tendency among Gen Xers (especially early and middle cohorts) to support the retrograde reaganoid ideas, and the fact that the "freedom caucus" in the House is half X and half Boomer, I don't think Boomers aging out by itself will allow more problem solvers to reign. Some Xers will have to go too. But in general, the older generations (including Silent, early and late Boomer, and early and middle Xer) are holding us back-- and will succeed until Millennials step up to their civic role and vote in midterm elections. 

But Boomers will still play a strong role in the political process through the 4T, and maybe part way into the 1T, though they are no longer a voting majority. It will be a question of WHICH boomers have the power: the blue boomers or the red boomers. Because we are in a political (not a generational) conflict, not a holy war, and it calls for bold leadership from the archetype that can provide it. And that means problem solving leadership, which Democrats currently now offer to the virtual exclusion of Republicans (although that has not always been the case, and perhaps by some miracle a few Republicans could assist in solving at least a few problems, and have on occasion already).

Those who accuse blue boomer Democrats of just being holy warriors, forget that they say "God Bless America" as often as Republicans do, and are mostly engaged in seeking to solve problems, not wage holy wars. It's just that the electorate has not yet given them adequate support (and sadly that looks now to continue). That is largely due to the tempting allure of neoliberal Reaganomics ideology that handicaps government action for the people. We need to support the problem solving efforts being made, such as in the build back better bill, and not handicap the leaders pushing it forward just by calling them boomer holy warriors.

Drastic institutional changes are supposed to be possible in a 4T toward the end. The blue Boomers will still need to be leaders to enact such changes. Other generations do not have the leadership ability nor the vision to do so. That is the Boomer Idealist/Prophet role. But such big changes as you suggest are not even on the horizon yet. It will take a veto-proof progressive majority and presidency for this to happen, perhaps made possible by the secession by some southern and/or mountain red states as happened in the previous civil war era (they were gray states then of course).