All academic since it would never actually happen, but it seems like 3rd parties enjoy more success under parliamentary systems, and super unpopular governments can be tossed out more easily. Would things be any better?
I mean, it’d probably be a somewhat healthier political climate? It’s not really going to solve any fundamental issues though IMO
maybe this isnt quite a lipstick pig situation but it feels a bit like you would go from capitalist classes controlling the current form of government to the capitalist classes controlling the parliament+ form of government
i would not buy that for a dollar!!!
if the us had always been a parliamentary system or became one after the civil war or something i can imagine things like universal healthcare being easier to pass during or after the great depression and the red scare might not have been as bad but if we woke up tomorrow and magically had a parliament i don’t think it would change too much, it seems like in this age of neoliberalism even if third parties wind up winning seats or even a majority they simply become a slightly different flavor of libs
Yes but also it would still be an awful place. That said Big Yud thinks parliaments are worse which is clear evidence for their superiority.
Lol no. See every other western country with a parliamentary system. Same issues
Well not all the same issues. Healthcare isn’t nearly as expensive in other western countries, most of them don’t have to worry about their FICO (Social) credit score, all that jazz
¯\_༼ •́ ͜ʖ •̀ ༽_/¯ I’m not advancing this as a way to transform empire into a benevolent figure on the world stage, I’m just wondering if it would be any better at all for anyone
Healthcare isn’t nearly as expensive in other western countries
There’s zero correlation between that and having a parlamentary system imo.
☝️🤓 Akshually there would be some correlation by sheer virtue of the US having the worst healthcare costs while also being one of the only “full” presidential systems in that category
Whether there’s an actual relationship (which I’m guessing is what you meant) is less clear, but I think there’s gotta be some association. There have been efforts to reform healthcare since Nixon’s time, but they were always able to throw up their hands and abandon it due to nebulous partisan gridlock (of course, informed by moneyed interests trying to keep the govt from busting up their profits). With the more fluid governments and coalitions of parliaments it’s possible we would have seen alignment on something
