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Honestly... Well regulated state militias were supposed to exist for a reason. The founding fathers weren't able to see the technology of the future but they were able to see the oppression of the future. They wrote the Constitution with their terms at their time. Modern politicians have chosen to abandon most aspects of the Constitution. But they were in there for a reason.
The founding fathers envisioned that every state, every community, any brotherhood or fellowship of men and or women would have a standing army that they could summon anytime to stop federal overreach, as well as the overreach of the corrupt and shiftless. that is the entire purpose of the second amendment.
The founders were, by a majority, against elections and wanted Presidents to be appointed by Congress. Americans care far too much about what those slave-owning shits intended. It was after all a quarter of a millennium ago.
So, like a... prime congressman? All the ~~ministers~~ congressmen vote in a Prime ~~Minister~~ Congressman to form the executive?
I agree with them entirely. The US is currently paralysed by a system where you need both a president and congress to agree before you can do anything, so if you have one opposed to the other then the entire government is basically useless and unable to reform anything until the president/balance of congress changes.
A parliamentary system avoids that problem by design - if the PM can't get enough votes from the parliament, then he doesn't have enough to "form a government" (I.e. become PM) in the first place. And if he ever loses majority support in parliament and thus can't pass any bills, then parliament can kick him out via a No Confidence vote with simple majority support, so that someone who does have majority support (or gains it via negotiating support from independents/minor parties) can become PM themselves and the government is able to function.
Switching to a parliamentary system would be the quickest and easiest method of preventing another situation like Obama's uselessness for most of his presidency because of a Republican-controlled senate.