This is excellent. Touches on the #DebtLimit and 5 other elements of #USpolitics that are anti-democratic by design; eg, author Jon Schwarz quotes James Madison:

“to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority. The senate, therefore, ought to be this body.”

I also loved his mention of #RankedChoiceVoting and #MultiRepDistricts aka #FairRepresentationAct

https://theintercept.com/2023/05/20/debt-ceiling-american-traditions/