Another Political Science Game-Changer

 26-08-04: Upon browsing the 320.9 section of the downtown library, I encountered this title.

If We Can Keep It: How the Republic Collapsed and How it Might be Saved

Michael Tomasky

Either Mr. Tomasky or his publishing agent is a serious narcissist

A game-changing account of the deep roots of political polarization in America and, finally a fourteen-point agenda for how to fix it.

That is how the cover jacket introduces the blurbs. I only recognize two of the five distinguished reviewers: Jeffrey Toobin and Joy Reid. Upon review of the first sentence, I realized Mr. Tomasky is an unrepentant libtard. "The Constitutional Convention passes the Connecticut Compromise by a vote, 5-4-1, creating the inherently unrepresentative United States Senate." 

Only Libtards describe the Senate as something other than what it is supposed to be. I cannot believe Mr. Tomasky does not understand that the Senate is supposed to represent the states. The erroneous Seventeenth Amendment diverted the noble intention. The Amazon site for the book changes the blurb introduction.

A game-changing account of the deep roots of political polarization in America, including an audacious fourteen-point agenda for how to fix it.

It appears that the powers that be explained to Mr. Tomasky and his agent that there are a lot of books out there with suggestions for how to fix the partisan problem, much less the governing problem. Tomasky does not hide his game-changing fourteen points until the end of the book, he outlines them at the beginning. Which is commendable, because ultimately that is what matters. He divides them into two groups:

Political Fixes:

1. End Partisan Gerrymandering
2. Bring Back At-Large Congressional Elections
3. Introduce Ranked-Choice Voting to Congressional Elections
4. Expand the House of Representatives to 500 Members
5. Eliminate the Filibuster
6. Get rid of the Electoral College (or Make it Obey the Popular Vote)
7. Revive Moderate Republicanism

Social and Cultural Fixes:

1. Establish "Foreign" Interstate College-Student Exchange Programs Between Blue and Red States
2. Reduce College to Three Years and Make Year Four a Service Year
3. Expand Student Exchange Programs to High Schools
4. Make Large National Employers Offer Similar Exchange Programs for Employees
5. Vastly Expand Civics Education
6. Insist on a Left that Doesn't Contribute to the Fracture
7. Demand that Corporate and Business Leaders Commit to Social Responsibility.

Mr. Tomasky is obviously a closet Communist!

Again, as I am sure I will find in every political science scholar's book, there is no consideration of reformulating the separation of government powers. I am the only proponent of such a theory.