Comment by roywiggins
3 years ago
A party gaining the majority but being unable to functionally govern is awful for democratic legitimacy. Why vote when even if your party wins an election, you don't get your preferred policy implemented, even partially?
And beyond that, it lets party politicians who don't really want to have to take hard votes hide behind the procedural hurdles.
Indeed. That results in the political system being bypassed, and so critical progress in America was made by the judiciary, which doesn't have popular support and is vulnerable to court-stacking and now, it appears, bribery.