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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
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?
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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.
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Cynthetiq, I believe you do
not understand the problem that is out there. The people who
are interested in "talking to their representatives" usually are not able to. Others have given up.
Moreover, if the districts were considerably smaller the overall dynamics would certainly change. We could debate what that change would be. In my opinion, one of the biggest changes is that many more citizens would get involved. If I were the Rep of a district of 50,000, you can be certain that I would be out talking to the people, explaining legislation, issues, etc. I believe that most Representatives would then be doing that. In a district of 700,000++, it is simply NOT possible to do that even if you wanted to.
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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
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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I don't know to which of my statements you refer.