Now is as good a time as any to re-post the 4 famous problems in US politics:
1. Naming the Speaker of the House
2. Invalidating the cached Speaker of the House
3. Off-by-one errors when counting votes (which wouldn't even help McCarthy anyway)
#uspolitics #housespeaker #gop #softwareengineering #problems #gopfail
@danhon the biggest problem is that the system relies on the expectation that members will act in good faith.
It doesn't though.
The system was specifically designed with the assumption that good faith couldn't be counted on. The framers spoke at length about that kind of concern as they engineered our procedures.
If nothing else, this is the root of the "if men were angles" quotation and a huge motivation for checks and balances at the core of the US design.
@volkris it might have been designed that way, but if we have learned anything from the Trump and post-trump eras, that design is woefully inadequate
So the design wasn't inadequate.
We just all voted to empower inadequate operators. And we reelected them over and over again.
But then, the whole point was for officials to answer to the people, and they got the answer when we approved of their management of government.
We got the government we wanted, as designed. We just need to stop wanting dumb things and electing dumb people to give it to us.
