Parliament vs Presidency

[detrius]

At least according to Chat GPT, there are four countries the Inter-parliamentary Union lists as having a parliamentary system and Freedom House lists as Unfree: Cambodia, Ethiopia, Iraq and Thailand.

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That's exactly why I added "functioning" as a qualifyer.

Cambodia's acting head of state orchestrated a coup in 1997, and the country's prime minister is his son.
Ethiopia has been plagued by a series of successive military conflicts, massive corruption and extreme poverty.
Iraq also struggles with massive corruption and political violence. It's also essentially split into three independent parts: Kurds in the North, Sunni Arabs in the middle and Shia Arabs in the South.
And Thailand had a military coup while my brother and his family were there on vacation.

All of these parliaments are sidelined, impotent and utterly dysfunctional. What this tells me is "healthy parliamentary system" = "healthy democracy".

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

To the larger point I absolutely agree that our form of government is stuck in time and is absolutely not fit to run a modern country. Unfortunately the will is not there to change it given how much it takes to amend the Constitution, or more properly replace it, given the magnitude of changes it would take.

Also it would be REALLY dangerous to try and change it right now given how far the Overton Window has shifted in the past 50 years.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

Also it would be REALLY dangerous to try and change it right now given how far the Overton Window has shifted in the past 50 years.

And just like every other aspect of the US government, the process of changing the Constitution gives small states more power. It would be more likely that any major attempt at modifying the Constitution would be to lock in their political advantages.