The thing is that is patently not the truth elsewhere in the world. There are plenty of winner takes all governments that don't have the issues the states does - indeed, I cannot think of a major western democracy that compares. Even Italy isn't this freaking nuts and their bringing down a government because a criminal has to serve a years community service. Are you saying the states is so fundamentally insane and broken that unlike every other western country it needs this absurd lock on the majority party?
Winner takes all pushes parties to the centre because the majority of voters don't actually *want* extremist policies.
Also, the senate is so ridiculously, absurdly unbalanced in terms of how its voting works its silly. No-one on the planet can think it rational that Wyoming and North Dakota get the same power to stop legislation as California and New York. That's not states rights, its a farcical unbalancing of voting that disenfranchises literally millions of people.
