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Re:U.S. backs down in fight with Harvard, MIT over student v... by mschuster91 on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @04:14PM (#23837217)
> How do we get past this?

Reform the entire election system:

- 4 year term length for House elections instead of 2 so that representatives can get stuff done instead of having to spend every second year in election campaigns

- reform campaign financing to a government funded model like in Germany (and entirely ban PACs) so that the influence of big money on government is eliminated

- if possible, get rid of the Presidential election by the population and have the President elected by Congress to prevent the situation of having a President without his own legislative majority

- get rid of FPTP and introduce proportional voting to reduce polarization and create more diversity in politics

- get rid of voter suppression and gerrymandering, make Sunday a voting day (or alternatively, a federal holiday), enforce universal mail-in voting across states

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Re:U.S. backs down in fight with Harvard, MIT over student v... by epicureanideal on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @04:24PM (#23837345)
Some would say having Presidents without a legislative majority and a legislative majority without a President is a feature, not a bug.
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Re:U.S. backs down in fight with Harvard, MIT over student v... by shipman05 on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @04:36PM (#23837501)
Same with 2 year cycles for the House. If the newly elected government acts in a way that the public doesn't like, we can partially replace it pretty quickly.

Four year cycles for the house would mean we would have no way of changing course for four full years (other than impeachment, and we've seen how ineffective of a check that is if the president's party controls the Senate)

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Re:U.S. backs down in fight with Harvard, MIT over student v... by VWWHFSfQ on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @04:35PM (#23837486)
I would also have a single 6-year term for the President. No more re-election campaigns mid-presidency.
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