Corbin, you are always right in theory. But this will go nowhere in practice. Wh? As long as House members are only elected by folks in their districts, they cannot do as you ask, especially if they must begin campaigning one week after being elected. 'murkans are not homogenous, every state, every district, is beholden to the overlords located there. Party politics is just fascist-light. The bigshots will rule, or be displaced by yet another overlord. Push to change the Constitution. If reps become electable by the entire state, things will change, but not via party unity, but by citizen unity. The way you get the plethora or 'types' of voters to act together is to give them real power with their vote, and that means the House is as powerful as the Senate, and that reps get a minimum of 4 years to serve ALL the constituents of their state. And we will finally hit bottom as a nation and as a world unless we allow the minority, which is everyone if you divide us up into camps, the minority(s) will just be bitter, uncooperative, deceptive, and antagonistic. It results in 'minority rule' cuz the oligarchs get their way by buying that minority via the sloppy and biased mechanisms in place to advertise and lie and assault candidates into defeat via fiat.
I will do whatever a 94 year old can do. it isn't much but.....
I'm sure you have a lot to offer June. Look forward to hearing more from you and this substack.
Corbin, you are always right in theory. But this will go nowhere in practice. Wh? As long as House members are only elected by folks in their districts, they cannot do as you ask, especially if they must begin campaigning one week after being elected. 'murkans are not homogenous, every state, every district, is beholden to the overlords located there. Party politics is just fascist-light. The bigshots will rule, or be displaced by yet another overlord. Push to change the Constitution. If reps become electable by the entire state, things will change, but not via party unity, but by citizen unity. The way you get the plethora or 'types' of voters to act together is to give them real power with their vote, and that means the House is as powerful as the Senate, and that reps get a minimum of 4 years to serve ALL the constituents of their state. And we will finally hit bottom as a nation and as a world unless we allow the minority, which is everyone if you divide us up into camps, the minority(s) will just be bitter, uncooperative, deceptive, and antagonistic. It results in 'minority rule' cuz the oligarchs get their way by buying that minority via the sloppy and biased mechanisms in place to advertise and lie and assault candidates into defeat via fiat.