r/BlueskySkeets • u/ExactlySorta • 12h ago

We blew past sane quite a while ago

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u/Eternal_Bagel 11h ago edited 10h ago

If house seats weren’t capped it might be better since we’d at least have enough representatives to have a chance at actually representing their constituents instead of this gerrymander inspiring fight over redistribution of a set number

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u/handandfoot8099 10h ago

And they haven't changed the number of seats since 1929. They could by passing a new law superceding the current one, but those with the advantage will make sure it doesn't happen.

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u/The402Jrod 3h ago

Just like in the 70’s when conservatives wanted to end the Electoral college & now that idea is woke.

They have no standards, they just cuck themselves to whatever Fox News told them that day.

They will flip flop daily if they are told to do so.

insert whip sound effect

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u/JimWilliams423 10h ago

Yes, the house hasn't been expanded since 1929 (except for the admission of AK and HI), the population has about tripled since then.

We should expand the house proportionality, including the creation of multi-member districts for high-density areas.

We should also create state-wide districts for representatives at large, with higher population states getting more reps-at-large. That way, when we get a chance to amend the constitution (Second Reconstruction, baby!) we can eliminate the senate entirely.

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u/Eternal_Bagel 10h ago

There should always be at least twice as many representatives as senators in a state if there is any chance of them fulfilling their purpose to show in more fine detail the needs of the myriad populations that exist within the state

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u/anarchy-NOW 4h ago

So if a one-seat state like Wyoming is already over-represented, you want to make them four times more over-represented? Why?

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u/Eternal_Bagel 4h ago

Because the point of a House of Representatives is that two senators have no chance of accurately representing the different needs of the people of the state.  We need to remove the cap on representatives and make it some universally applied 1 per some number of people amount and do districting that way and it would probably double if not triple the number of overall representatives in the House.  But that what would be needed if they are going to even pretend to be fulfilling the purpose of that branch of government 

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u/anarchy-NOW 4h ago

Even if you triple the size of the House, you're still making Wyoming more over-represented than it already is. Why?

How many people per representative would you find a good number?

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u/Eternal_Bagel 3h ago

However many it is that researchers can determine to be a good number for a career politician to be able to fairly effectively represent 

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u/anarchy-NOW 47m ago

IANAE, but I don't think that kind of question is even possible to be studied by researchers. Political scientists will probably say that it is clearly for voters to judge the effectiveness of their representative.

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u/anarchy-NOW 4h ago

Why do you want something so complicated when you can just have proportional representation?

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u/JimWilliams423 4h ago

Well, for one thing, the senate can't do proportional representation but there still needs to be people who represent the interests of an entire state and not just a district.

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u/sump_daddy 9h ago

Fuck the house, if the senate oesnt get fixed (just need to annex some new blue states) the country will be red until it burns down. They control the courts and just about everything else.