jelloshooter848 on Nostr: Think about how “bipartisan” committees work. Let’s say there’s a committee ...

Think about how “bipartisan” committees work. Let’s say there’s a committee of 10. So they’ll say “in order to make sure the committee is balanced we’ll make it rule that 5 members must be Democrats and 5 members must be Republicans.” Sounds great until you realize they are literally entrenching the parties into the system to the point where the mere concept of anyone from outside those two parties have any power or influence is laughably improbable.

The biggest screw up of the constitution was leaving the election system and the pricess of legislation vague. In their attempt to leave party politics out of the constitution, they ended up letting these systems get co-opted by the two major parties. It has just gotten worse and worse over time to the point where the two parties completely control the entire election process, and so of course they build into those systems incentives to reinforce the strengthening of that power.