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Study: 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.us)
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[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

Each congressperson represents too many people.

We need to add seats to the House of Representatives.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Quintuple the number of seats in each district, use Sequential Proportional Approval Voting to elect the five members of each district.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Let’s add some seats to the Supreme Court while we’re at it.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago

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. :(