On Wednesday, Maine’s legislature passed a bill joining a compact to commit all of their electoral votes, regardless of who won in their individual state, to whichever candidate won the national popular vote.
If you live in an city you vote is disenfranchised thrice over, you just don’t realize.
You are correct, in a swing state your vote would carry more weight. But then you’d be subject to the propaganda and media campaigns lobbied against those populations for like 18months before the vote. It’s exhausting.
If you are in a populous state your vote is diminished by only having 2 Senators. 2 Senators per state, regardless population, GDP, et al, gives undue power to smaller states at the cost of the bigger ones. Taking from one group of people to give to another is socialism right? I missed that lesson of fox nows, idk.
But the house. There’s no reason to cap the house at 435. Zero. Zilch.
The UK, for comparison has 1442 politicians in its two houses under the King. America, 40x the size, with 5x the population, has 535?
Wtf?!?
We need to uncap the house. Like yesterday. Constitutionally it’s supposed to be 1 rep for 30k citizens. That’d mean 11000 members of congress.
I say good. I’m all for power being diluted. Always in all ways. I want power so diluted entropy would take notice.
If you live in an city you vote is disenfranchised thrice over, you just don’t realize.
You are correct, in a swing state your vote would carry more weight. But then you’d be subject to the propaganda and media campaigns lobbied against those populations for like 18months before the vote. It’s exhausting.
If you are in a populous state your vote is diminished by only having 2 Senators. 2 Senators per state, regardless population, GDP, et al, gives undue power to smaller states at the cost of the bigger ones. Taking from one group of people to give to another is socialism right? I missed that lesson of fox nows, idk.
But the house. There’s no reason to cap the house at 435. Zero. Zilch.
The UK, for comparison has 1442 politicians in its two houses under the King. America, 40x the size, with 5x the population, has 535?
Wtf?!?
We need to uncap the house. Like yesterday. Constitutionally it’s supposed to be 1 rep for 30k citizens. That’d mean 11000 members of congress.
I say good. I’m all for power being diluted. Always in all ways. I want power so diluted entropy would take notice.