return2ozma@lemmy.world to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world · 7 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-square135fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-squareTheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-27 days agoEach congressperson represents too many people. We need to add seats to the House of Representatives.
minus-squareAsafum@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·6 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. :(
minus-squarecrusa187@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·6 days agoLet’s add some seats to the Supreme Court while we’re at it.
minus-squareLiz@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 days agoQuintuple the number of seats in each district, use Sequential Proportional Approval Voting to elect the five members of each district.
Each congressperson represents too many people.
We need to add seats to the House of Representatives.
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. :(
Let’s add some seats to the Supreme Court while we’re at it.
Quintuple the number of seats in each district, use Sequential Proportional Approval Voting to elect the five members of each district.