A westminster system usually has a) less gerrymandering than the US has now, and b) civil servants who are not political...
Anonymous asked: A westminster system usually has a) less gerrymandering than the US has now, and b) civil servants who are not political appointees and kinda actually run the place, both of which would act as moderating influences compared to the current state of the US. Then again, the US has never been moderate about anything, ever, so same as it always was I guess
yeah hey Commonwealth kid I’m gonna stop you right there and point out that one of the big things in American politics – ever since we took over the Empire from you but especially now – is tensions over how the “permanent government”/Deep State/civil service has become self-perpetuating in alignment with technocratic establishmentarianism and unresponsive to the national will as expressed by elections
and if you’re not picking up on that subtext maybe don’t be so breezy confident about understanding things