Tilted Cat Head
Administrator
Location: Manhattan, NY
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Yakk, no I don't think that anyone is less than the other, which is what I'm trying to explalin. I may not be explaining it well, and I'm not extremely versed in our system other than the indoctrinations of schooling way back whenever I don't recall any longer.
Again, the population is reflected representatives 435 or 6,000, and it is balanced by the senate which is 2 per state.
So because there is the balance and the reflection of number 435, I cannot see a huge jump in value by adding another 5,000 people into the mix.
If the a majority of 300M Americans right now don't care so much as to how the 435 representives are getting things done how are the 600M going to care about 6,000 representatives?
If people aren't interested in talking to their representatives and senators now, what makes that going to happen more if there are smaller districts and more representatives?
It makes sense in a goods and services model wherein the closer you can deliver the goods and services you'll saturate more and gain more marketshare, but how does that translate to people being more interested?
Voter turnouts are abysmally low. There are many instances where in districts for local elections are nonraces because no one wishes to participate in the process.
JEQ you state that "they'll change..." you don't have any statistics to show that they've declined because the population increased or anything but just voter apathy.
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