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Let’s just admit that this arranged marriage isn’t really working anymore, is it? The partisan dynamic in Washington may have changed, but our dysfunctional, codependent relationship is still the same. The midterm results have shown that Democrats have become even more a party of cities and upscale suburbs whose votes are inefficiently packed into dense geographies, Republicans one of exurbs and rural areas overrepresented in the Senate. The new Congress will be more ideologically divided than any before it, according to a scoring system developed by Stanford political scientist Adam Bonica: the Republicans more conservative, the Democrats more liberal.
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yet more navel gazing... that is not a U.S. only problem, but a worldwide trend.
you look at every election, whether U.S., Canada, UK, France, etc., liberal parties always do better in urban areas and conservative parties always do better in rural areas. Splitting up the country is NOT the answer, trying to fix your electoral system is.
The big problem IMHO is the permanent election, Congress is elected every two years where the norm in every other country is four years, so Congress never has time to legislate and Congressmen spend all their time campaigning or raising funds for the next Campaign.
With a 4 year Parliament, you can have 2.5-3 years of actual governing followed by 1-1.5 years of positioning for the next election so something can actually get done.