return2ozma@lemmy.world to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world · 12 days agoStudy: Congress literally doesn’t care what you think. The preferences of the average American appear to have only a miniscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy.act.represent.usexternal-linkmessage-square146fedilinkarrow-up1810arrow-down127cross-posted to: usa@lemmy.ml
arrow-up1783arrow-down1external-linkStudy: Congress literally doesn’t care what you think. The preferences of the average American appear to have only a miniscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy.act.represent.usreturn2ozma@lemmy.world to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world · 12 days agomessage-square146fedilinkcross-posted to: usa@lemmy.ml
minus-squareTheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24arrow-down2·edit-211 days agoEach congressperson represents too many people. We need to add seats to the House of Representatives.
minus-squareLiz@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·11 days agoQuintuple the number of seats in each district, use Sequential Proportional Approval Voting to elect the five members of each district.
minus-squarecrusa187@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·11 days agoLet’s add some seats to the Supreme Court while we’re at it.
minus-squareAsafum@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down3·11 days agoWe can’t do that or Republicans will never have control of government. I mean that’s a good thing, and we’ll finally have some semblance of representation, but it’s exactly why we can’t do it. :(
Each congressperson represents too many people.
We need to add seats to the House of Representatives.
Quintuple the number of seats in each district, use Sequential Proportional Approval Voting to elect the five members of each district.
Let’s add some seats to the Supreme Court while we’re at it.
We can’t do that or Republicans will never have control of government.
I mean that’s a good thing, and we’ll finally have some semblance of representation, but it’s exactly why we can’t do it. :(