Presidential or Parliamentary?
Steven Worth
Strategy and Operations Executive – Equipping Corporate, Nonprofit and Government Organizations to Profitably Capitalize on Global Market Opportunities ? Strategic Planning ? Globalization ? Innovative Funding
"The whole point of winning an election is to get into office to do something..." James Baker III from The Man who Ran Washington
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As we witness a pitiful Senate that will fail to convict a clearly guilty former president of yet another impeachable act, we see we are evolving toward a parliamentary form of government where the Senate has no function and the top executive is no more than a representative of the dominant party in the country. The old presidential system only worked when politicians were ready to put country before party.
Trying to seek bipartisan solutions in an era of an insurrectionist minority party is fruitless--if the president's party has the votes, as they do, they must use them. Accumulating power without actually using it to advance policy goals is naive, wasteful, and ultimately self-destructive.
Trump republicans know this, but then they are trying to govern from a minority position. The majority now find themselves in power but if they choose not to use it due to a sense they must pursue bipartisanship they are likely to provoke a backlash from a public that simply wants and needs action regardless of which party provides it.