In what way? It’s not like they don’t already have rules around how long people can debate, when sessions happen, what technology they use, the powers of committees, etc…
It’s not the 1700s any more, it doesn’t take a month to organize and transit 1000 people or even 10,000 people. Hell, you can fill a football stadium with 100k people on two weeks notice when the team advances in the post season.
Changing apportionment rules is not even that rare historically, we’ve just been brainwashed to think 435 is some sacrosanct number. If we scaled with the number of reps on the 1910 census we’d be well over 1400 by now.
And yet somehow in a country of 340 million people we see these polls:
80% were not in favor of attacking Iran
80% believe abortion should be legal
60% thought Trump should be barred from office in 2021
Similar numbers want him removed now
65% are opposed to ICE’s reign of terror
> 50% want to abolish ICE completely
74% support universal free school lunches
62% support raising the federal minimum wage
67% want to raise teacher’s salaries
75% want to reverse the Citizens United ruling
88% support federal laws that would guarantee PTO
> 60% support replacing the Electoral College and FPTP voting
But zero of those things are anywhere close to legislation because our congress is under the thumb of a dozen celebrity personalities and party flip floppers. The more diluted the voting power, the harder it is to make personal backroom deals and buy elections.
Inflating the House doesn’t solve similar problems with the Senate or Executive + Judicial branches, but it’s better than nothing.
A 6,000 seat house would be less functional, not more functional. You may reduce the gerrymander, but cripple government.
In what way? It’s not like they don’t already have rules around how long people can debate, when sessions happen, what technology they use, the powers of committees, etc…
It’s not the 1700s any more, it doesn’t take a month to organize and transit 1000 people or even 10,000 people. Hell, you can fill a football stadium with 100k people on two weeks notice when the team advances in the post season.
Changing apportionment rules is not even that rare historically, we’ve just been brainwashed to think 435 is some sacrosanct number. If we scaled with the number of reps on the 1910 census we’d be well over 1400 by now.
You can’t get 435 people to agree on things, there’s no hope of getting 6,000.
And yet somehow in a country of 340 million people we see these polls:
But zero of those things are anywhere close to legislation because our congress is under the thumb of a dozen celebrity personalities and party flip floppers. The more diluted the voting power, the harder it is to make personal backroom deals and buy elections.
Inflating the House doesn’t solve similar problems with the Senate or Executive + Judicial branches, but it’s better than nothing.