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I think the points raised are reasonable and, to my mind, not particularly partisan (though I would argue one party is more responsible for the current chaos by several orders of magnitude than the other one..).

The deeper issue this raises is, I suppose, a constitutional one paired with Long Now Foundation-type questions. How do we design institutions that can't themselves be changed too easily due to majoritarian whims, yet can evolve over decades and centuries as societies change. We certainly shouldn't expect the institutions and norms of today to precisely meet the needs of our descendants decades or centuries from now.

For the here and now though, my observation is this: Americans in general are allergic to learning from what other countries do. But really, as a very large country, we should be studying what smaller countries do and using them as experimental points of data and testing them out here. There are plenty of implementations of better, more responsive governance out there. Nothing's perfect, but saying 'we're number one' and plugging our ears is no solution.



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