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You can fix the american democracy by upgrading it ranked choice voting, abolishing the electoral college, ending citizens united, giving all prisoners the right to vote, reforming the supreme court, make Washington DC and Puerto Rico states.

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Eliminating the senate, massively increasing the size of the house, making registration automatic, executing anyone caught disenfranchising voters, etc

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Eliminating the Senate might seem like a good way to reduce the outsized influence that voters in smaller states wield, but the Senate helps keep those states in the union.

Also, the death penalty should be eliminated, not expanded.

We obviously need to address the fact that our government doesn’t represent the country, but drastically increasing the ability of larger states to ride roughshod over the interests of smaller states is not a recipe for stability.

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Death penalty only for white collar crime?

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the Senate helps keep those states in the union.

Oh, so we need the Senate to keep such valuable states as Alabama, Mississippi and Florida in the union?

This is like arguing the need for the Senate filibuster, because of how important it was to such orators as Strom Thurmond and Richard Russell.

I’m fine keeping the Senate on the condition that if you suppress voting for a senator, he can’t be seated.

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the Senate helps keep those states in the union.

In that case California should secede; we’ll be better represented that way.

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The death penalty thing was said tongue in cheek. And we already settled the whole can you leave the union thing a little while back.

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… Introducing proportional representation and majority elected president, enfranchising all people, ending politically appointed judiciary, making intentional lies with the intention to mislead the public a criminal offence…

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Nah, don’t tie provable intent to it. Just knowingly lie should be enough. If it’s not under national secrets or some other thing, lying SHOULD be illegal out of representatives. Always.

They can always say, “no comment” if they feel the urge to lie.

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Eliminating the Senate is not a good idea. Maybe just fix it by populating it in proportion to the states citizens?

And do yourself a favor and finally abolish the death penalty. It does not become to a civilized country.

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Isn’t that just the house?

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I thought PR just hasn’t gotten 51% in favor of statehood?

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you can’t fix the foundation of blood and suffering that the house was built on top of

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Show me one government not built on a pile of bodies

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I can’t! :) all governments are fucking evil and must be destroyed

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