Its corrupt as hell, anti-democratic and there isn't a blue argument for keeping it. Popular voting would kill the GOP in one cycle.
Walz says the Electoral College ‘needs to go’
His comments are a painful reminder for Democrats of 2016, when Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by nearly 3 million votes but fell short of the 270 votes she needed in the Electoral College and lost to Donald Trump.
#politics
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/08/walz-says-the-electoral-college-needs-to-go-00182981
@JLong
I'm sick of minority rule
In Texas, we're so gerrymandered Dems have to win 58% of the vote to get 36% of the state legislature seats
After we win (not encouraging complacency, vote, volunteer, donate) we should push for a national democracy tune up
1 end electoral college
2 publicly fund elections
3 draw congressional districts with an open source algorithm that only considers population and optimizes for simple, compact shapes
It might takes decades, so we should get started😁
Fix Congress by finally ratifying Article the First.
The Bill of Rights had 12 amendments. The first one one of them set congressional representation at 1 : 50,000. There should be 6,000+ Congressmen.
Each Congressman has 15 aides, doing the actual work. They're unelected, and usually inexperienced. The Congressman has 2 jobs:
1) Raising money
b) Voting on bills as directed by the people giving them money
Article the First was brilliant and prescient. Turns out it takes 1 person to service the needs of 50,000 citizens. That's the ratio we have, but they're not elected.
There won't be a need to raise millions for re-election if you only need to reach 50,000.
Humans excel at logistics - set up a system and they'll figure out how to game it.
Instead of living and meeting all in DC, use live cams and convention centers. Certainly committees would be simple to run.
At least one Federal Building in every state with a SCIF, secure data to each Congressional district office - it's not rocket science. Besides, we can do rocket science if we want.
@danalan @JLong
Thanks for the additional detail.
I can see advantages in accountability and possibly the breakdown of the two party system.
The downsides seem logistical