America in Crisis: A Bold New Solution to Our Broken Democracy with Constitutional Law Scholar, Max Stearns

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🗓️ 21 May 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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In this episode, Max Stearns explores the core problems behind America's political mess, showing how social media and our strict two-party system deepen divisions and block real progress. Stearns explains how our current voting system forces people to pick between two bad options, which only increases conflict and stops things from getting done. He presents a bold new idea to solve these issues, highlighting the urgent need for a big but possible change. This episode is a must-listen for anyone fed up with how things are and looking for a fresh way to make our democracy work better. Tune in to discover how we can move past bitter partisanship and create a political system that truly reflects the varied interests of all Americans. Max's book, Parliamentary America: The Least Radical Means of Radically Repairing Our Broken Democracy, is available now! Learn more about Max at blindspotblog.us/about-max-stearns. Support the Show - Become a Patron! Help us grow and become a Patron today: https://www.patreon.com/smartpeoplepodcast Sponsors: Rocket Money - Cancel your unwanted subscriptions by going to RocketMoney.com/SMART Babbel - Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/spp Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:50.8	Chris Tempeer, thanks for tuning in. Simple question for you. Do you elect the president?
0:57.7	I'm not trying to be provocative. In fact, up until this episode, I thought, yeah, I do. And then our
1:05.0	guest opened my eyes to the simple fact that every election year, we go to the polls and we pretty much get to pick
1:13.7	between two options, and for the most part, we had no say getting them to the ballot.
1:22.8	Essentially, people are just voting for Democrat or Republican. We're just voting parties, the vast majority of the time.
1:32.3	And I don't know how you feel about it, but in this upcoming election, we're going to have two candidates and 60% of Americans aren't excited about either of them.
1:41.3	How do we live in a democracy where the majority of people don't like either of them. How do we live in a democracy where the majority of people don't like either of the
1:48.5	options? And then how do we solve that problem? That's what we're talking about on our episode this
1:55.6	week. And I have to say this was a sneaky good one. I didn't know about it, but I feel like the last couple we've
2:01.7	been hitting some home runs. So make sure you're subscribed because great guests recently
2:05.7	that you want to listen to and great guests coming up. In fact, next week's going to be
2:09.5	incredible as well. This week on the show, we are talking to Max Stearns. Max is a professor of law at the University of Maryland.
2:19.7	He's authored dozens of articles and several books on the Constitution, the Supreme Court,
2:24.9	and the economic analysis of law.
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