Letter: Perhaps parliament politics for America

America should acknowledge our hallowed Structure is fatally flawed. Our vaunted checks and balances and two-party system failed a long time in the past. Our Supreme Court docket ratified the failure by permitting limitless marketing campaign contributions and gave the president immunity to rule as a king.

Have been our Founding Fathers too fearful to observe England’s parliamentary type of authorities? Had they seemed nearer to house, they might have adopted Iceland’s parliamentary authorities, arguably the world’s oldest, courting again to 930 A.D. In a parliamentary type of authorities, one no-confidence vote sends the chief, the prime minister, packing.

In 2022, Liz Truss served solely 45 days as Britain’s prime minister — the shortest in British historical past — earlier than being pressured to resign or face a vote of no confidence. If we had a parliament and never a Congress, as an alternative of tolerating 100-plus days of Donald Trump, we could possibly be having fun with 50-plus days of freedom.

Sam Gillie

Hawaii Kai

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