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> reflect what voters want. and what do they want?
by andrekandre 1y ago
> reflect what voters want.
and what do they want?
- kibibu 1y agoChange.
- zelphirkalt 1y agoNation-wide Chesterton's Fence happening right now, with people learning a hard lesson soon enough. Let's just hope it won't be too late to repair their broken systems.
- BLKNSLVR 1y agoIt's never too late to fix. The problem is the time frame. The changes made thus far present at least a decade of rebuilding to fix, and we're only 100 days in.
- Capricorn2481 1y ago> It's never too late to fix. The problem is the time frame. We're never out of time but the problem is time? There is absolutely a point of no return.
- BLKNSLVR 1y agoSorry, I should have said: The problem is the time frame of the fix If the US ends up a smoking ruin it can still be fixed, it'll just take longer.
- zelphirkalt 1y agoI mean, eventually we also hope some other places develop something like a functioning democracy, or whatever is better in the future, and we hope it will be a matter of time until they at some point do. The problem with the US is though, that they have the most powerful military on the planet, and the US ending up in smoking ruins probably means lots of other places going down with it, when the US looks outside for reasons of its failure. It is quite dangerous.
- nandomrumber 1y ago[flagged]
- seanmcdirmid 1y agoPlease don’t let perfect be the enemy of good. We were much better off the last 4 years than it looks like we will be for the next, but it was far from ideal/perfect.
- nandomrumber 1y agoWho’s “we”, what does better off mean and over what time period. Predicting the future is hard. Having said that, certainty does make planning easier.
- yoyohello13 1y agoThe only real issue is these assholes are taking me down with them.
- bilbo0s 1y agoMaybe that's what the people want? Maybe they don't like the fact that there's people out there making 500 grand a year? At least not while they're struggling to make ends meet on 50 grand a year. Now your leaders are supposed to be wise enough to not take down the 500 grand a year guys. But what if they aren't?
- chgs 1y agoAnd someone with a mere 10m in the bank makes more than 500 grand just from their wealth appreciating. Yet people seem to have far less concern about people with such relatively low wealth.
- yoyohello13 1y agoI'm WAY closer to the 50k group than the 500k group. I just want a leader who has some empathy.
- goatlover 1y agoChange what though? I'm convinced a lot of this has been right wing media portraying government as corrupt and broken for decades while demonizing the Democratic party as being responsible. True, some of this is likely the result of globalism and neoliberalism, but instead of an educated debate on the tradeoffs involved and how the world has changed, there is a culture war.
- heisenbit 1y agoWanting change is a curious notion considering they are FOX viewing baby boomers. Isn‘t it more a change in the sense of stopping change and turning back time?
- sumeno 1y agoFor life to be worse for the people they don't like. They just didn't expect it to be worse for them too
- _2d30 1y agoA rational theory of spite suggests that even if they know that it will be worse for them too, if the level of their spite is great enough, they are still better off because the joy of the suffering of others is greater than their own induced suffering.
- __MatrixMan__ 1y agoTo be listened to, rather than to be told what to care about, and to have those concerns make it to competent people with the power to do something about them. But it's not really compatible with a system where one person represents millions. You'd need something recursive such that no person represents more than a hundred or so, that way there's time to circle back and explain why certain complaints aren't being addressed this cycle and such. You know, responsibility of leadership to the people. It's also not really compatible with a system where your representative for foo-type issues must also be your representative for bar-type issues, because "competent people" is too broad of a category to be useful. How to get there from here? I'm not sure but it seems like it'll require a more significant discontinuity than we've seen so far.
- disgruntledphd2 1y agoRepeal the act capping house representatives to 435. The house then expands massively and you get more representative government.
- chgs 1y agoSo you have 6,000 representatives, which is about the same ratio as the population back in 1790. What does each one do? What agency does each have? They get 20 minutes a year to speak assuming a 2000 hour working year.
- panick21_ 1y agoWhat would happen is that representatives are more locally focused on their districts and would vote in larger 'sub'-parties. In a single seat district system, increase in seats its also proven to improve representation for minorities. I don't think the expansion by itself is a fix-all solution. One of the issues is that you have many single issue districts and those that get elected can vote whatever they want on everything else. That is both good and bad in some situations. > They get 20 minutes a year to speak assuming a 2000 hour working year. Congress isn't about making public speeches, its about legislating in congress. Turning congress into a TV show is part of the issue in the first place.