This was in fact the founders’ original idea for how the republic should function.
It turned into issue based politics as soon as Washington stepped down, and in fact much earlier. It would be instructive to look at why this happened.
Note that not everybody here is American (maybe even less than 50%) - and a good way to make politics less mind-killing is to look at countries with different systems (France, Britain) or very different systems (China, Singapore, Iran, Bismark’s Germany, the Roman Empire, ancient Greece).
This was in fact the founders’ original idea for how the republic should function. It turned into issue based politics as soon as Washington stepped down, and in fact much earlier. It would be instructive to look at why this happened.
Note that not everybody here is American (maybe even less than 50%) - and a good way to make politics less mind-killing is to look at countries with different systems (France, Britain) or very different systems (China, Singapore, Iran, Bismark’s Germany, the Roman Empire, ancient Greece).