return2ozma@lemmy.world to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world · 4 months 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-square144fedilinkarrow-up1782arrow-down122cross-posted to: usa
arrow-up1760arrow-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 · 4 months agomessage-square144fedilinkcross-posted to: usa
minus-squareTheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23arrow-down2·edit-24 months agoEach congressperson represents too many people. We need to add seats to the House of Representatives.
minus-squareLiz@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·4 months agoQuintuple the number of seats in each district, use Sequential Proportional Approval Voting to elect the five members of each district.
minus-squarecrusa187linkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·4 months agoLet’s add some seats to the Supreme Court while we’re at it.
minus-squareAsafum@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·4 months 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. :(