Comment on Is there a reason that all elected (not appointed) officials shouldn't be subject to a recall vote?

UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

A good example is Fetterman.

I think the problem isn’t Fetterman so much as it is The Senate. Six year terms, expensive high stakes statewide elections, comically disproportionate representation by population size, and the smaller house giving a single bad actor disproportionate power to fuck with legislation.

You could point to Rand Paul or Joe Manchin or Ted Cruz just as easily. They all have a reputation for fucking with the popular consensus through arcane procedures and toxic personal ideologies.

A recall has the potential to remove a single bad actor in a single state and replace them with… what? Another bad actor? If you flipped out Fetterman for Memet Oz, would you be any happier? Meanwhile, the problem of the Senate is still embedded in the national political structure.

What we really need is an Article Five convention, to restructure a centuries-outdated and anti-democratic federal system in its entirety.

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