I was prepared to leave this open in case it was sufficiently generic and not US centric, but it looks many comments assume it’s about the current US political situation. Locking. Rule 6.
See: every other country.
France has had three elections in quick succession, if I remember right, and all from failed budgets.
(Really it’s because the people pushing the budgets are arguing like a bag of cats, but the budget failing is how they’re back to elections)
Canada’s shortest administration was like 24 hours.
Countries where the elections aren’t mandated to last 4 years get kicked out when they suck.
Careful what you wish for. We could end up with something worse than now. How many times have we said, it can’t get any worse. It’s always getting worse
In many countries, failure to pass a budget triggers a new election
Like Canada.
A system that requires all parties to agree government spending every year is fucking moronic tbh.
You should see how other countries do it.
(Spoiler: like that. Consensus)
I’m just used to the UK version.
The government of the day sets the budget. Each year they announce things like tax rises/lowering etc but funding doesnt just stop.
You’re so close to realizing that you don’t have a government that represents you, or it’s citizens in general. It’s not a bug, it’s a feature.
We call them Double dissolutions in Australia. It happened once.
