Good points... 2 things that might improve the situation are: 1) lengthen House terms to 6 years like the Senate, and 2) end districting and replace it with all at-large House elections so that proportional representation manifests more accurately (instead of gerrymandering).
who doesnt love some good gerymandering?Turquoise wrote:
Good points... 2 things that might improve the situation are: 1) lengthen House terms to 6 years like the Senate, and 2) end districting and replace it with all at-large House elections so that proportional representation manifests more accurately (instead of gerrymandering).
Looks legit right?
thats a real district for parts of Chicago (to get all the Black folks into one district I assume)
LOL... Look up the 12th district of NC. It's great.
Turquoise wrote:
LOL... Look up the 12th district of NC. It's great.
this guy?
lmao, classic American politics, thats a piece of history right there.
Very much so... At large elections would make it much harder to buy House seats. You'd have to look after at least 51% of the state's interests.pierro wrote:
As bad as gerrymandering is...the prevalence of lobbying groups and the amount of money in the political system does alot of damage
Well, the tradeoff is that 90-95% of the incumbents get reelected. The only way you get real, meaningful change is to risk being in the 5-10% booted out...assuming the decisions you make are not as popular as "going with the flow". So by lengthing the terms....Turquoise wrote:
Good points... 2 things that might improve the situation are: 1) lengthen House terms to 6 years like the Senate, and 2) end districting and replace it with all at-large House elections so that proportional representation manifests more accurately (instead of gerrymandering).
The ideology is lost once they deliver the acceptance speech, imo. I'd like to see if worked from that angle differently somehow.
I support lengthening House terms because, at 2 years, they practically only have time to campaign for the next election. Not much meaningful can be done in only 2 years.Pug wrote:
Well, the tradeoff is that 90-95% of the incumbents get reelected. The only way you get real, meaningful change is to risk being in the 5-10% booted out...assuming the decisions you make are not as popular as "going with the flow". So by lengthing the terms....Turquoise wrote:
Good points... 2 things that might improve the situation are: 1) lengthen House terms to 6 years like the Senate, and 2) end districting and replace it with all at-large House elections so that proportional representation manifests more accurately (instead of gerrymandering).
The ideology is lost once they deliver the acceptance speech, imo. I'd like to see if worked from that angle differently somehow.
True, but they are still fresh and less jaded.Turquoise wrote:
I support lengthening House terms because, at 2 years, they practically only have time to campaign for the next election. Not much meaningful can be done in only 2 years.
I know that Congress is supposed to work slow, but I'd like to see them work faster to keep up. Hell, even use a bit more foresight instead of hindsight.
Of course if when they screw things up you are handcuffed to their incompetence for years and years. Negative.Turquoise wrote:
I support lengthening House terms because, at 2 years, they practically only have time to campaign for the next election. Not much meaningful can be done in only 2 years.Pug wrote:
Well, the tradeoff is that 90-95% of the incumbents get reelected. The only way you get real, meaningful change is to risk being in the 5-10% booted out...assuming the decisions you make are not as popular as "going with the flow". So by lengthing the terms....Turquoise wrote:
Good points... 2 things that might improve the situation are: 1) lengthen House terms to 6 years like the Senate, and 2) end districting and replace it with all at-large House elections so that proportional representation manifests more accurately (instead of gerrymandering).
The ideology is lost once they deliver the acceptance speech, imo. I'd like to see if worked from that angle differently somehow.
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2 years is a bit silly. Make it three, or four.
The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
~ Richard Feynman
~ Richard Feynman