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Disproportionate representation can be kind of a bummer for the under represented folks. Get rid of the senate and remove the cap on the house!
Sadly that will never happen (peacefully) because the smaller states would never vote to reduce their own power. That's not even considering it would require a constitutional amendment, which is notoriously hard to pass.
Senate, yes. House, no.
The House used to regularly increase in size and has only been at 435 seats since 1911 and capped at that size since 1929. This is changeable through normal law making.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-the-house-got-stuck-at-435-seats/
Oh 100% a pipe dream, yeah, but it would be so rad
Wyoming is the under represented folks, this was the solution.
The Senate was the solution, the house is meant to be population based but they ran out of space in the chamber and capped it instead of just building a bigger room so now Wyoming is massively overrepresented.
This is a lie, Wyoming has ONE congressman.
What part is a lie?
Wyoming is massively overrepresented.
You want less than one congressman per state or what? California has 40 or 50, there's like 5 states with one congressman. Spare me the crocodile tears about you're so under represented.
They weren't suggesting that there be less than one congressman in Wyoming. You seem to have entirely ignored the actual suggestion they were making, which seems difficult.
Nah. They were just crying because they think their team will have an easier time pushing someone else's team around if certain states get even more congressmen
No, they weren't.
Sure, i believe you, whatever shuts you up.
I mean, you clearly just want to blather and argue in bad faith, so what's the point
Nah. That really only came in with the last response, mostly cause you got nothing worth saying but ain't letting that stop you.
You still haven't given any indication you actually read and understood what they were suggesting. Without the bluster.
I understood it perfectly well, move along.
You clearly didn't, claiming they wanted some states to have fewer than one Rep.
sigh. do you not understand logical implication?
No one implied it, and it was illogical to imply.
So no.
Dude you were wrong. Embarrassingly so. Get over it and move on.
No. This is stupid whining from.stupid people think it benefits their faction.
Man some of you Americans are so fucked, no wonder your politics is a fucking mess.
I feel bad for the sane!
What an incredible amount of self Ls in such a short amount of time.
And that one congressman represents 500k people, Meanwhile each of Florida's represents 800k people. Why should the people of Florida's votes be worth 60% of a Wyoming voter's? Why should we not just give Florida 11 more congresspeople so it's even?
Take a look at https://www.thegreenpapers.com/Census10/FedRep.phtml?sort=Elec#table
California has 678,945 residents per elected representative versus Wyoming’s 284,150, meaning that Wyoming’s residents have an almost 3x voice. Wyoming is the most represented state by population ratio and California is last.
As others have said, that’s what the senate was for, while the House should have a static ratio across all states with the count increasing by total national population.
boo fucking hoo. they have 40 plus representatives, Wyoming is a big state. 2 senators and a congressman. Person could easily argue a Californians vote is worth much more, that state has a whole team going in the house. the ratio is basically static, except for states that no longer the population to get one. Like do you want Wyoming and north dakota to share a house member? That's not practical either.
In area, sure, but most of it is empty or populated by more cows than humans. You're basically saying that empty land and cows deserve equal representation to humans.
You could, but you'd be very very wrong. A third as much is not more.
Wouldn't be any more stupid than the current situation 🤷
it's hilarious how you can tell roughly where anyone is from by the propaganda they bought.
So where do you think I'm from?
By your own logic, I'd guess you're from somewhere with more livestock than people and a severely underfunded education system.
PNW or the western coast, although i'd bet you moved there.
You'd lose that bet bigly lol. I don't live anywhere near there, never have.
i am so surprised you'd immediately say that. just shocked. You've quite the grasp of west coast slang and politics that's either method acting or bullshit,
Yeah, the truth often comes as a shock to wilfully ignorant victims of brainwashing such as yourself.
Your guess isn't even on the right continent 😄
I have real doubts you're on the continent you pretend. If your really are, you're oddly obsessed with american life and never spell anything wrong.
Just because you make shit up to bolster your argument doesn't mean the rest of us do.
One of my most recent comments on Lemmy mentions the city I live in, go ahead and check..
I did, You are so full of shit. Every second comment is about American politics.
Nope. That would be you.
When America sneezes, Europe catches a cold. Besides, American politics is all over the internet, so it's not like you have to search that hard to know about it.
And I make spelling errors and/or typos all the time, I just fix them as I catch them. That's why most of my posts and comments have that [edited] icon next to them.
Duck season