Maybe we’ve outgrown the idea of a president. Clearly, the country is divided and it seems to be mostly geographical. Coasts/population centers are democratic leaning and the inland states and rural areas are mostly republican leaning. The votes are pretty evenly split down the middle and I don’t really see that changing anytime soon. For whatever reason, there are hard and fast divisions that exist either as social constructs or in political ideologies (I think it’s more the former these days than the later). i.e. tribalism.
So why not ditch the idea of the executive being wrapped up in a single person? What if the executive was a small group system. Sort of like the Judicial and like the legislative, but smaller. I understand the idea of “the buck stops here” mentality of a single executive, but it’s very clear that the country isn’t being well served fighting over which part of the country will get to be served for the next 4 years. only for the other side to “get their turn” after a few years.
I honestly don’t know how you would assemble this group, how big it should be, or how it would be prevented from being hijacked by a single interest, but it seems like it would tamp down the impulsive nature of a person, or dampen any hard-line ideologies.
You’d need at least 3, one “blue tribe” one “red tribe” and some third person that I can’t figure out to be a tiebreaker.
thoughts?