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I have a whole treatise on America's representation issues. I will try to keep it brief. #1 - Not enough House seats - The capping of the HoR at 435 is moronic. It strips power from large states (which may have been the point). Votes in small states are worth more nationally than votes in large states. If you expand the House the seats will more representatively represent the voting populations of states. #1A - Not having enough house seats kills the Electoral College. With more proportional representation Democrats would have won the Presidency every year since 1992 except 2004. #1B - House districts are too big. If there are 800k people in a district, how can they represent the interests accurately? #2 - Gerrymandering removes accountability from public officials because elections are decided before anyone goes to vote. #3 - Democrats are wimps who won't fight for anything. Fin
#1. Increasing the number of congressional representatives had never occurred to me. It would be a genius way to offset the rural advantage in the Electoral College and more accurately reflect the will of the people. #2 The elimination of Gerrymandering, i.e., creating more competitive districts would go a long way to eliminating the extremes in both parties. We probably wouldn’t see any more QAnon congressional representatives.
The Senate was designed by the founders to be a provide a check on the more populous states. Statehood for Puerto Rico would likely be a partial solution. Defeating McConnell would also have been a partial solution.
Just heard Big Sam say he’s comin for Arsenal in 6 days. Wonder how Mikel and the boys will respond to that.
.....and might have been a good idea then but is now an anachronism. If not abolished, at the very least, its rules essentially requiring super majorities to get anything done should be changed. One of the main failings of the FFs was that they didn't anticipate the rise and subsequent overwhelming importance of political parties. They created a system of government that relied on institutional (or branch, if you will) jealousies to provide checks and balances. But almost from the start---certainly by the election of 1800---party affiliation, rather than Senate vs. House; Congress vs. President; SCt. vs. anyone, became more important.
The best thing to do now is to make a list of all GOPs and conservatives, round them up and get rid of them. Then we will end fascism and have utopia.
And now you have become death... this fun popular pervasive ideology is every bit as dangerous as the opposite and equal one.
Dominion is doing it for us, not in ballot box, but in the court house, threatening to sue all the conspiracy theorists attacking their voting system. They forced Fox News and others to back off and issue retractions. Which obliquely leads us to Section 230, which states that “no provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.” Trump wants to eliminate Section 230 because Twitter is placing disclaimers on his tweets. The irony is that if Section 230 is eliminated, Twitter like Fox News or any other News organization becomes libel for information posted on their AP, which means that some of the more libelous conspiracy theories would get taken down all over the internet.
It was sarcasm. I've voted democrat all my life but this year I voted for Trump. Guess I got red pilled and started looking into all his policies especially regarding peace in Middle East and moving our reliance on China. It just made sense to me. He has bad rhetoric— says/tweet stupid sh*t. Not the best president for a pandemic but good on economy and foreign policy. The democrats and mainstream media were so bad this year....I voted for Trump. Plus, for everyone who says he is a dictator, he could’ve grab so much power during the pandemic rather delegated the powers to the states. More of a federalist than a dictator
One response, we are closing on 400,000 dead by Jan 20, all because his first concern was the economy, not the health of the people. He doesn’t have an ounce of empathy.