I'm writing about structural failures in American governance—the system-level problems that produce gridlock and shutdowns.

What's the dysfunction you see that nobody's talking about? What are you tired of hearing that doesn't actually address the root problem?

Drop your thoughts below. 👇

This conversation is why I started The Statecraft Blueprint. Howard's right that we need structural overhaul, not just pruning.
I'm a software engineer applying systems thinking to governance failures. Same diagnosis: the incentive architecture is fundamentally broken.
We need more of this.

Replace every person in Congress and you'd get the same results. Why? The STRUCTURE creates this behavior.
Public voting records = lobbyist reprisal tool
Under-resourced staff = info dependency
Revolving door = corrupted incentives
Not thieves - trapped people statecraftblueprint.org/p/legislativ...

GRPs can't be amended - only accepted/rejected wholesale. This eliminates legislative deliberation. You lose the 'refine and improve' function of normal lawmaking. All-or-nothing governance. substack.com/@thestatecra...

Good instinct. You've spotted something most don't question: Why can we only hold representatives accountable every 2-6 years?
20 states have recall mechanisms. Parliamentary systems have confidence votes.
Between "wait" and "impeachment" we have nothing.
The system we have is a choice.

Simple lies beat complex truths because our incentives reward speed, not accuracy. Journalism smooths incoherence into “policy,” virality does the rest, and corrections arrive too late. The mechanism, in five stages:
statecraftblueprint.org/p/the-five-s...

We keep fighting about what government should do while the machinery that implements policy stays broken. That’s a design problem. Proposal: governance architects—experts who design the how while elected officials decide the what.
statecraftblueprint.org/p/refactorin...