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Yes and the barrier to do that is so much higher than OP's suggestion. It's so high that it's nearly impossible. Idealism is great and all, but you gotta have
by meddlepal 7y ago
Yes and the barrier to do that is so much higher than OP's suggestion. It's so high that it's nearly impossible.
Idealism is great and all, but you gotta have a practical plan to achieve something.
- EGreg 7y agoThe barrier remains regardless of whether you contact your rep, or not. We may as well ask for both. Multi member districts is not a bad idea for the House of Representatives. Can be done on a local level. But there needs to be a constitutional amendment. Why not simply switch to a system where a state itself is a giant multi member district, like a parliamentary system?
- meddlepal 7y ago> Why not simply switch to a system where a state itself is a giant multi member district, like a parliamentary system? Because this isn't software... you can't just "switch" to a different form of government like that.
- defterGoose 7y ago...and attitudes like this are largely why.
- brokenkebab 7y agoI'm not an expert in US law, so maybe I miss something, but there are countries which successfully changed their electoral systems, so apparently it's possible.