Why We Need LESS Democracy:

I have a minimum of three posts backed up for today.

That said, I had to push those posts aside for this one.

A The New Republic article suggests -- no, STATES -- that this nation needs to set aside the US Constitution.

Too Much of a Good Thing

Why we need less democracy.

• Peter Orszag

• September 14, 2011 | 9:46 pm
• 31 comments
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In an 1814 letter to John Taylor, John Adams wrote that “there never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” That may read today like an overstatement, but it is certainly true that our democracy finds itself facing a deep challenge: During my recent stint in the Obama administration as director of the Office of Management and Budget, it was clear to me that the country’s political polarization was growing worse—harming Washington’s ability to do the basic, necessary work of governing. If you need confirmation of this, look no further than the recent debt-limit debacle, which clearly showed that we are becoming two nations governed by a single Congress—and that paralyzing gridlock is the result.

So what to do? To solve the serious problems facing our country, we need to minimize the harm from legislative inertia by relying more on automatic policies and depoliticized commissions for certain policy decisions. In other words, radical as it sounds, we need to counter the gridlock of our political institutions by making them a bit less democratic.

So let's just institute a monarchy.

Let's just make Mr Obama a King.

BZ

P.S.
Not out of the realm of possibilities for the Left.

King Obama.

All hail!