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In reply to the discussion: Polls Show That America Has Lost Faith in America’s Rigged Elections [View all]Scruffy1
(3,254 posts)The way things are now there are very few contested congressional seats, especially in the house. Years of propaganda and gerrymandering have assured reelections no matter how bad they are. The Democrats have largely gone along with it since it assures their own electability. In my district my Congressman hardly campaigns because he will get close to 80% of the vote in this heavily democratic district. The next district north is gerrymandered Republican and as long as you have an R you will get in.
The only I can think of is to increase the number of Congressional districts. When I was young 1960's we had approximately one congressperson for every 250,000 population. If we used this as a base we would have about a thousand representatives. This would make it much tougher to gerrymander and also give people more access. It would also make it a lot harder for the dark money.
As idea of the right wing doing anything I find laughable. They don't get where they are by fair elections.
The odds of this happening is about zero since every sitting congressperson would have their power and their base cut in half. Unfortunately we are saddled with majority rule and third parties have never made it anywhere. The only hope is a new Constitution, but that is a slim hope in a country that has had the sacredness of this document pounded in their head since birth.
Meanwhile the campaigns devolve into personality cults and are almost issue free. For instance global warming has hardly been mentioned.