Things in the US that need a total rehaul

You forgot the two most important:

1. The electoral college.

2. SCOTUS

Yes, you’re right r1

Enough social housing for everyone who needs it, no more homelessness.

DataLounge!

Our dangerously unstable bridges.

The Internal Revenue Code.

Election processes

SCOTUS

Electoral college

and

Gerrymandering

Social media is critical, as it needs to be in check for the rest to thrive.

Government fund to every municipality’s schools to have mandatory magnetometers at the entrance of every school in America.

When TikTok is banned next year, hopefully some things improve.

Get rid of the electoral college

Electoral college.

[quote] Get rid of the electoral college

Sounds good when there are only two political parties that have any chance of winning, so of course, the candidate who gets the most votes in what's called a "general election" should be the winner. Just think, no more "battleground states," and everyone's vote would actually count! What an idea!

But what would happen if we actually did have three or four strong political parties in the United States, and let's say none of the candidates on the ballot received even 30% of the total vote? Wouldn't there have to be some kind of mechanism that kicks-in to determine who should be elected? Otherwise, we could have a candidate put in office, where over 60% of the voters didn't even vote for the person. Perhaps then, some kind electoral college could come into play, so at least electors in each state could declare who won their state, or there'd be some way where two or more parties could form some kind of coalition like in parliamentary forms of government.

ftr - I hate the electoral college, but I also hate our two party system, especially now that the country is so divided.

Dude, 1/3 of the population doesn't vote.

It's not even an even third, the largest third of the population chooses not to vote

What's a rehaul? Do you mean overhaul?

Did someone say U-HAUL?

R14 R15 I know that. That's why I wrote "voters" not "total population."

The Electoral College will never be abolished because doing so would guarantee no Republican would ever win the White House again.

Infrastructure in the US needs a total overhaul. Roads, bridges, etc., are all just barely functional at this point across the nation because they haven't kept pace with population growth. Making the necessary repairs and expansions would likely cost trillions. So we're stuck with roads built for the traffic of decades ago.

Madonna's face.

Higher education. They must bring the price way down.

Zoning laws.

[quote] Wouldn't there have to be some kind of mechanism that kicks-in to determine who should be elected?

Couldn't you just have a runoff? Isn't that what they do in other countries?

Public amenities - public sports and fitness centres and facilities. Leisure and culture facilities. These are good in some locations and absent in others. More public structured-activity programmes for youth in summer. Kids need something free and good for their brains in the summer.

[quote] Electoral college.

We came so close to abolishing it a few decades ago.

[quote] Dude, 1/3 of the population doesn't vote.

People who don't vote should be fined. If they repeatedly don't vote, increase the fines. You don't get to reap the benefits of democracy while refusing to participate in it.

The public education system. Why do you think the country is so fucked up right now that about 35 - 40 % of the voters think a convicted felon with a shitty track record is worth voting for?

R26 It used to be you could be jailed for not voting in Australia. The fairness doctrine needs to be reinstated and updated for the internet age and the corporations who dominate it. One couldn't yell fire in a movie theater under the fairness doctrine but it was rescinded.. Click bait spreading noise info and dramatic toxic hyperbole have become the thing that generates clicks and that is given president over most every other consideration. Media is too powerful a tool to just go unregulated.

[quote]R28: … Media is too powerful a tool to just go unregulated.

Amen to that!

R28, people are still fined for not voting in Australia, right? I think maybe there should be a three strikes rule. If you don't vote a third time, you go to jail.

I just voted in local council elections in Australia and the whole process is done by postal vote. No polling booths or specific day to vote, you just get your ballot in the mail and have two weeks to mail it back.

How does that sit with our US friends?

Don’t you dare touch SSI and Medicare.

R31, I did the same thing here in America. I don't know why MOST people wouldn't do mail-in voting.

I betcha there is a percentage of non-voters that can’t read

The Genius Visa program.

American Toilet Stalls. They are disgusting . I demand floor to ceiling privacy.

R28 Bingo on bringing back the Fairness Doctrine and updating it to apply to modern media.

I’ll add, find a way to undo the 2010 Supreme Court precedent of “Citizens United” vs FEC. This disastrous decision made it all so much easier for the oligarchy to buy up both parties and eventually get their way regardless. They just need their corporate media lackeys to manufacture consent from that point in order to maintain the facade of a representative form of government.

r14 Dude

It’s waistline.

Oh dear, and ITS grammar.

The Supreme Court.

Politically, I wouldn't be against mandatory voting legislation. I would also be interested in AI-generated redistricting that completely removes people from the process.