The American system is designed to work best when there’s cooperation between factions and parties and when there’s some degree of working together. It’s no surprise, therefore, that when you get the wrong kind of parliamentary politics, namely discipline and ideological divisions, cooperation becomes impossible, gridlock becomes the norm, and it becomes almost inconceivable to imagine the kinds of reforms that in a parliamentary system a majority government can very easily push through.

A Nation of Spoiled Brats

Just one of the multiple good bits of stuff in this interview.