If you could make one change to reduce partisan gridlock what would it be?
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Lyin' Steve
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« on: July 31, 2016, 01:30:48 PM »

For me, probably making supreme court picks entirely apolitical, maybe from an independent review board or even simply tenure-based from judges in the circuit courts.  The politicized supreme court is completely antithetical to the Constitution and, more importantly, it's currently serving as a motive for people to vote by party even if they hate their candidates and disagree with them on everything else.
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« Reply #1 on: July 31, 2016, 01:39:09 PM »

I expect generational turnover on its own will get rid of a lot of the gridlock and partisan rancor.  
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« Reply #2 on: July 31, 2016, 01:53:16 PM »

Campaign finance reform
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« Reply #3 on: July 31, 2016, 02:52:37 PM »

I expect generational turnover on its own will get rid of a lot of the gridlock and partisan rancor.  

Are you kidding?  Millennials are all trapped in their online echo chambers
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« Reply #4 on: July 31, 2016, 03:08:24 PM »

I expect generational turnover on its own will get rid of a lot of the gridlock and partisan rancor.  

Are you kidding?  Millennials are all trapped in their online echo chambers

Don't act like you don't know what I am talking about:

 
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« Reply #5 on: July 31, 2016, 04:56:45 PM »

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« Reply #6 on: July 31, 2016, 04:59:45 PM »

get rid of the party that's almost solely responsible for it ㄟ(ツ)ㄏ
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« Reply #7 on: July 31, 2016, 05:04:48 PM »

Eliminate gerrymandering.
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« Reply #8 on: July 31, 2016, 06:07:38 PM »

Abolish the government
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« Reply #9 on: July 31, 2016, 06:31:32 PM »

The answer seems to me to be breathtakingly obvious. Eliminate the idea of 'party control' of the senate or House. Have them elect nonpartisan nonpolitician speakers. Allow the chairmanships to be given by proportion between the houses like in A Proporz system (I.e. If there is an equal split of republicans and democrats, then half the chairs will be Democratic). Give speaking time in proportion to the party's numbers in the legislature.

This seems like a logical thing to me. Aside from weirdos on this site who fancy themselves important trendsetters by arbitrarily endorsing candidates and residents of small states who really want pork; voting for a senator or house member of a party you don't normally vote for is a downright stupid act. Yes, maybe Jesus is running for your least favoured party and your favoured party is running the leading Don of the Mafia, but it doesn't matter: if you vote against your party you are voting against your own policies being put into place. It's effectively a parliamentary system, with none of the pros.

Also less stupid time bombs that say "if this policy isn't passed by midnight in seven days then we will destroy the world economy".
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« Reply #10 on: July 31, 2016, 09:15:21 PM »

Unicameral legislature with no filibuster.
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« Reply #11 on: July 31, 2016, 09:33:26 PM »

Campaign finance reform, elimination of gerrymandering, removing filibustering.
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« Reply #12 on: July 31, 2016, 09:43:56 PM »

Create a viable centrist party.
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« Reply #13 on: July 31, 2016, 10:47:05 PM »

Second Amendment remedies.

That's a joke, prudes.
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« Reply #14 on: July 31, 2016, 10:50:29 PM »

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« Reply #15 on: July 31, 2016, 11:41:36 PM »


But we already have the Democrats.
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« Reply #16 on: July 31, 2016, 11:53:16 PM »

Maybe I'd reduce the threshold needed to break the filibuster, since needing 60 to pass anything in the Senate is kind of ridiculous. But, on the whole, I wouldn't. It's broadly a good thing that our system requires broad approval for a change in public policy.
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« Reply #17 on: August 01, 2016, 12:07:03 AM »


I don't think the Democrats really count as centrist anymore. The party has definitely moved to the left in the last decade or so.
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« Reply #18 on: August 01, 2016, 12:12:18 AM »

Regarding gerrymandering - I would prefer an indepedent commission, told to draw state districts roughly according to presidential results - i.e. Ohio would be gerrymandered to always be around 50/50. I'd eliminate the requirement for VRA districts to make this much easier - I know some would squeal about this, but the requirement actually just makes the natural democrat-leaning district compaction into urban areas even worse and is actually a net benefit to R's, as map-makers are forced to make a certain district more and more democratic (and therefore minority-populated) to accommodate VRA rules, which therefore makes the remaining area of the state more and more republican. Contrary to popular belief, without VRA, you can draw a 5-3 R Map in Missouri (with potential for 4-4), and nope, you don't have to draw NC-like gerrymanders to do it.

While that wouldn't necessarily break up gridlock, it would make the HoR membership reflect what people actually think, rather than the current system of "Well, legislature, what result would you prefer?".





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« Reply #19 on: August 01, 2016, 12:30:21 AM »

Public funding ofy elections.
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« Reply #20 on: August 01, 2016, 12:31:04 AM »

Neuter the Senate.
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« Reply #21 on: August 01, 2016, 02:05:00 AM »


This. Specifically, an idea could be to basically "reverse" the filibuster, making it necessary for 60 (or maybe just 55) Senators to oppose a House bill in order to prevent its passage.
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« Reply #22 on: August 01, 2016, 05:54:45 PM »


center =/= center-left
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« Reply #23 on: August 01, 2016, 06:07:49 PM »

Without question, the ending of political control of districting.
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« Reply #24 on: August 01, 2016, 06:32:40 PM »

Only Elect Republicans
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