Institutional blocks hamper change at every turn in America - and make me see the value of the British political system Perhaps the biggest thing I've learned since I moved to Washington DC earlier this year is that democracy in the US is fundamentally broken. Not in that total, all-encompassing way that renders elections a sham and voting an entirely farcical waste of time. Rather, there's an eclectic set of factors that combine to stack the deck so heavily that the barriers to progressive chan...
How moving to the US made me appreciate the House of Lords | Abi Wilkinson
The Guardian - 12 Nov 2018 15:48
Institutional blocks hamper change at every turn in America - and make me see the value of the British political system Perhaps the biggest thing I've learned since I moved to Washington DC earlier this year is that democracy in the US is fundamentally broken. Not in that total, all-encompassing way that renders elections a sham and voting an entirely farcical waste of time. Rather, there's an eclectic set of factors that combine to stack the deck so heavily that the barriers to progressive chan...
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