Fair point on the distinction between satisfaction with Congress as a whole versus a person's own representative. However, one would expect satisfaction with Co

Fair point on the distinction between satisfaction with Congress as a whole versus a person's own representative. However, one would expect satisfaction with Congress to have some kind of correlation with the popular vote. Why aren't Republican voters satisfied with Congress? After all, more than half of Americans voted for a Republican [1]. I agree with you that our electorate is dysfunctional. At the same time, we either believe everyone should have roughly equal say in our government, or we don't. I'm not saying that we should have an actual democracy, but that the mechanisms of our system should be fundamentally democratic. But if the problem is the electorate itself, that begs the question: what's the better answer? I'm earnestly all ears. Why do we want the states to be represented as a first-class entity? The concept of "one person, one vote" makes plenty of sense for people, but why should states have equal representation when they have different numbers of people? To me, _people_, not states, are paramount. I'm also unclear what you mean by a stable bully majority. Because I think that's what we have today. If you live in an uncompetitive district and you're in the political minority, you're essentially permanently disenfranchised. The best you can hope for is to be pandered to in a primary by some candidate trying to build a coalition. [1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/11/10/democrats-won-popular-vote-senate-too/93598998/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016...