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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
List-voting would limit the amount of campaigning that rank-and-file House members have to do, because it wouldn't be all on them to defend their seat.
I still like the idea of a hybrid list system. The idea of our constituency-based voting system with districts is that someone from your locality is representing you in Washington. Gerrymandering subverts that idea, but so would straight list-voting. It could be something like both major parties field candidates for House elections in each congressional district, but they put them in a list, and the number sent is proportional to the votes the party got in the statewide popular.
The two things I'd love to see...
1) A "none of the above" option for elections, to allow those that don't like any of the available candidates (or sole candidate) to express their disdain without possibly spoiling the ballot and "losing" their vote.
2) A politician with the guts to propose revoking the 2nd Amendment... only to oppose it as well, then use the resulting failure to pass as a way to get meaningful gun control legislation off the ground, as hopefully the fears of "They'll take our guns!" will have been abolished by then.
Alternatively, politicians going to the gun industry and saying "Okay, either you help us craft some meaningful reforms that would benefit everyone involved, or we'll revoke your protection from lawsuits by families of those killed in shooting sprees. Your choice."
edited 8th Oct '15 12:56:17 PM by ironballs16
"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"But it's not the Constitution, it's the fundamentals of our individualist ignorant crass and backward culture that prevent this country from falling in line with the rest of the modern world. The Constitution is merely the biggest symbol of this old America, and therefore it must be abolished if America is to ever be remade as a European state.
Edit: Oh and it was deliberately designed to make change difficult.
edited 8th Oct '15 2:08:38 PM by JackOLantern1337
I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.![]()
Yes but at least they have less racism, fewer people are superstitious, and their entertainment is sophisticated(or so I've heard) compared to the cheep crap this country produces, and also they don't have regular shootings like we have here in the good ol US of A.
edited 8th Oct '15 2:12:46 PM by JackOLantern1337
I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.Europe paid lip service to left wing economic ideals since the mid 20th century whilst quietly breeding a new wave of right-wing would-be autocrats who wore the socialist masks as disguises. Now they've ripped the masks off and the people are stuck with them.
They're better than the U.S. in a variety of ways, to be sure, mostly on social issues. Their leaders have set about changing all that, though.
edited 8th Oct '15 2:14:03 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"![]()
I mean western Europe. Honestly I don't know if we should copy Europe, but all I know is that our government and culture need to be destroyed and remade, and Europe seems like the best option for copying, it isn't like we haven't stolen their innovations before.
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Russia and Turkey did it, most of Europe's former colonies did it to a certain extent, thought in a lot of ways they didn't have much of a choice in the matter. I don't see why we can't do it. Or hell we could look elsewhere to China and Russia. But the current situation is untenable. And it's time we stop living in the shadow of a bunch of treacherous slave owning fops form the 18th century, and enter the modern age.
edited 8th Oct '15 2:24:19 PM by JackOLantern1337
I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.When I convince the gullible fools esteemed voters gullible fools of this world to appoint me king, everything will be Scandinavia. I've heard good things about Scandinavia.
Well the EU (and more specifically the euro zone), I'd guess it's because decisions are made by people who are either not elected, or are not elected by the whole zone but instead the locally elected local leaders of particular regions.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran

What else would a majority be?