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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 17 days
The problem, as always, is that the U.S. system is uniquely bad among wealthy democracies.
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Miles Beard @milesbeard.bsky.social · 17 days
The US uniquely never having to rebuild postwar has ironically fucked it because everyone else got to go "okay that's a fine constitution but what would be even better is..." and then did they actually did that
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Ohai @bop.bsky.social · 17 days
We almost had this with the reconstruction era. John Wilkes Booth really fucked things up.
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🇵🇸 from the Frederick to the Enchilada 🇵🇸 @markaudacity.bsky.social · 17 days
Don't forget Rutherford B Hayes, the man whose only historical significance is that he ended reconstruction.
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M. R. Graham @quiestinliteris.bsky.social · 17 days
Hey, also notable for people inexplicably thinking he's responsible for the Hays Code!
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Russec @russec.info · 17 days
It’s interesting to note that many of the places the US invested in rebuilding after World War II (West Germany, Japan) are parliamentary democracies and not federal republics.
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The Fat Man @fatman.bsky.social · 17 days
What? Germany is absolutely a federal republic. What are you talking about? A parliamentary system would be superior to ours imho, but that's got nothing to do with a country being federal or a republic.
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Russec @russec.info · 17 days
The Bundestag is a federal *parliament* - closest equivalent is the UK House of Commons
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Franklin D. Roosefella @roosefella.bsky.social · 17 days
Germany is clearly both of the things you said. While the different States have a very high level self-governance for Europe, it's nothing compared to states in the United States. Bundesrepublik literally means "federal republic"
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Franklin D. Roosefella @roosefella.bsky.social · 17 days
both of those things being "parliamentary democracy" and "federal republics"
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The Fat Man @fatman.bsky.social · 17 days
Thai you. The way they're using terms it's to imply that they're exclusive to each other. When in reality they just describe different attributes of how a governmental system is set up.
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The Fat Man @fatman.bsky.social · 17 days
Germany is a federal parliamentary republic. India is a better comparison as it is structured much the same. If you want to compare in the Commonwealth Australia is a federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy. The UK is unitary not federal despite the devolved parliaments.