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Originally posted by 3zos
Our goverment was created for a much smaller country and population in mind. What needs to happen is that a team of experts needs to get together and design a new form of goverment for the way the country is now. This is a huge design problem, and won't be solved in a couple or months.. but if done right, would be a very positive change for this country.
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This is crazy and would never actually happen, but what if we split the country into four roughly equally-populated federated republics, each with their own federal government? We could have the northeast (Basically VA on up, westward to Ohio), the Southeast (NC down to Florida, as far west as Mississippi), the Midwest (Indiana over to Wyoming and Montana) and the West (AZ, UT and westward). It's probably still more land/people than the original US government was intended to deal with, but it would be much more manageable.
I don't think this would solve the essential problem, though, which is that the job of "politician" as it now stands attracts a certain type of person. Power corrupts. We also have a system that discourages long-term thinking, or thinking any further than the next election cycle. I don't know if term limits would fix this or exacerbate it.