Well. if you want to get things done, you need an authoritarian government, which nobody wants. The more "democratic" the government, the longer it takes to get things done. I wrote an essay on how I think the electoral college should be reformed to better suit modern day population densities and distributions.
Interesting essay, I really enjoy reading innovative and new ideas even if they are unpopular sometimes.
What was the conclusion of your paper?
I wrote about how our country was founded upon the principles of equality, and how inequality will only grow over time due to lack of enforcement of voting rights, partisan gerrymandering, and the electoral college. Did you know that it is predicted that by 2040, 70% of Americans will live in the fifteen largest states and have only 30 senators, while the remaining 30% of Americans will have 70 senators? I argued that they should make an amendment to the constitution despite the unlikliness of that happening, and making it a popular vote kind of election. A benefit of the popular vote is also that there would be more political parties and different opinions heard. George Washington thought that political parties were bad because they would look to benefit themselves and not the country... and look where that’s gotten us.
Very interesting paper indeed. There is no doubt that this is an issue for the US now. The political parties seems to be very focused on their interests rather than the interests of the common good.
If you take Al Gore as an example than you see that only when power seems out of range, there is a reason to start focus on the issues with the current system.
Many of the founding fathers of the United States would be a bit surprised if they saw what the US has become in terms of power distribution.