There's a sort of somber melancholy to the impeachment proceedings today. It is the barest of scraps of democratic normalcy, thrown pointlessly like paper at the wind. A depressingly microscopic dint in the repair needed.
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I imagine a Congress that would insist on giving voting representation to D.C., Puerto Rico, Guam and other territories. Because how could you not?
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I imagine a political system that at every level would insist on a judicial appointment commission, led by the legal profession, and an electoral boundary commission. How else could they have democratic credibility?
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We vacillate between winner-breaks-all factions; one wildly corrupt and theocratic beyond international norms, the other technocratic and timid. Either way, a cult of reverence.
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