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.
Depends on the consequences of failing to pass a budget. If you just keep using last year’s, it’s fine.
We call them Double dissolutions in Australia. It happened once.
It’s worth noting that there was CIA involvement
Who’s going to make them give up power?
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.
Order is an illusion. Fear is a sin. Chaos is God. Instead of trying to control the wave, people need to learn how to ride the wave. That wave never crashes And if they try to stop it it creates a hell.
Hell will grow stronger the more they try to control and contain. That’s a universal natural law.
I like drugs too. Good times man. Good times.
By what?
Also, that would be motivation to pass bad budgets that nobody agrees on.
Going off the example of other nations, the previously agreed budget allocations (from a prior year).
Special elections could be invoked if there is complete deadlock, but that is unlikely to be a successful policy outside of nations that already have it.
…This is where you draw the line as to what constitutes as a failed government? With all of the other reasons out in the open.
Nailed it. Maybe a nation who’s entire system of checks and balances that it beat off to for years can be toppled to fast and utterly doesn’t deserve to be rebuilt.
The experiment is over folks. It’s been dead for a while. 2025 just opened some people’s eyes to it.
the us is far to rigid for that, and neither side wants to give up power to have a new election or government/coalition. the gop and lesser extent the dnc fights tooth and nail to prevent expanding both houses SEATS, and the scotus, smaller groups are easier to control and manipulate than a really large HOUSE, or senate.
Yeah but it’s USA. Let’s wait and see how it plays out for the next 3 years or more. I don’t mind.
Yes! I believe we should have snap elections if the budget doesn’t get passed. If you have 6 years or 6 months left, it doesn’t matter. We can do elections within 2 weeks. We don’t need 2 years for an election season. If the local community thinks their rep did nothing wrong, then they will be reelected. If not they will be replaced until a budget is passed.
We need a way to replace people that aren’t working instead of just dealing with them for years. If you can’t do you job then you are fired, unless you have a close connection with your local. Then you could explain the situation.
Agree
These geriatrics and their incompetent nepo babies need to be removed from power
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)
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
