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fatslob-:O on 31 July 2017
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Cerebralbore101 said:

The electoral college was originally intended to give slave owning states more power. Every slave counted as 3/5ths of a person under the electoral college. This was to ensure that southern states couldn't be outvoted by the more populus northern states. 

We all know this ...  

Cerebralbore101 said:

We also have the senate to help make sure that the minority isn't steamrolled in today's system, and that is a good thing. Every state gets two senators no matter what their population. This means that Republicans have a natural advantage in the Senate, and can put a stop to bad bills that arise in the House. The problem today is that the filibuster has made it so that you need a supermajority to pass anything through the Senate. This means that a single sitting Senator can effectively veto a bill. The end result is that nothing gets passed unless it is a terrible bill that makes too many concessions. 

I see the filibuster as a good thing since it encourages compromise among parties ...

You may see it as terrible but a national government is supposed to be anything but progressive ... (it's the local governments that are supposed to be progressive so that they can quickly adapt to the needs of who their serving in the area)

Republicans don't just have an advantage in the senate, their most important advantage is in the state legislatures which is the key to controlling congress and presidency ... 

Cerebralbore101 said:


If the ACA just needed a simple majority vote in both the House and the Senate it would have been a much better bill. It probably would have been a single payer system that doesn't step on the toes of anybody that doesn't want it. Instead we get this mandate that everybody is forced to buy insurance or pay a fine. That's no way to fix the system. It's just a handout to the insurance companies. Imagine if the government mandated that everybody must get their oil changed once a month. Mechanics would rejoice. 

Well we have to think about the welfare of insurance providers too ... (to prevent tyranny of the majority) 

There's tons of things we can do to make healthcare cheaper but would it be ideal ? (less strict malpractice codes (costs less for doctors in case patients want to sue them), preventive care through incentives (did you know that a quarter of americans have multiple chronic conditions ?), no medical or drug patent protection (means everyone can benefit from cheaper treatments and drugs at the expense of the creator), no patent protection means less incentive for medical research (the US produces the most medical paper and holds the most amount of clinical trials in the world)) 

God have mercy on us if China becomes leader in medical reseach, clinical trials, and biotechnology since they seem to have the most vested interest in genetic enhancements and bioweapons ... (imagine their entire population having immunity to the most fatal chronic diseases such as HIV, diabetes, neurodegeratatives like vCJD and they'll probably try everyway to increase IQ scores)