Are We Going to Get a New Political System?

Our political system is basically designed as poorly as possible to manage that kind of demographic transition. The two party system collapses all divisions in society into a zero sum, all or nothing, competitive existential conflict. When thatit gets racialized or ethnecized, it can become dangerous very quickly. And were as polarized as any time since before the civil war. With a separately elected presidency and a bi cameral system, we have witwhat a political scientist refer to as a profusion of veto points. Very little, very few laws may get through our system.