I mean if we're going to do something as radical as abolish the Electoral College and expand the House to 600-some seats (oof, gonna need to rebuild the whole damn Capitol again, are we?), we might as well start over with the whole damn structure of the thing. Congressional districts are a silly concept to begin with, because even in the best case scenario you're splitting up the country into entirely arbitrary regions that nobody actually identifies with. I have to look up what district I'm even in every single time because it has no bearing on my day-to-day life and of course it changes every few years anyway. Of course everyone is going to try manipulating the boundaries to give themselves an advantage.
As for the Presidential election, I've come to the conclusion that even having a separate election for the singular head of state is to blame for why nobody cares about Congress and treats the President like an elected, limited-term dictator, and also the real reason we've devolved into a two-party system while countries with Parliamentary systems mostly have not. In theory that's what the Framers were trying to avoid when they set up the Electoral College as a body of electors who vote their own conscience, even if that also failed for reasons that are obvious in hindsight. But I also understand that a Parliamentary system would completely violate the separation of powers, and the need to form coalitions to get Prime Ministers and other internal leaders chosen kind of defeats the purpose of having more than two parties.
But this is probably best given its own dedicated thread. Something with a title like "ITT we're the Framers of the Second US Constitution."
As for the Presidential election, I've come to the conclusion that even having a separate election for the singular head of state is to blame for why nobody cares about Congress and treats the President like an elected, limited-term dictator, and also the real reason we've devolved into a two-party system while countries with Parliamentary systems mostly have not. In theory that's what the Framers were trying to avoid when they set up the Electoral College as a body of electors who vote their own conscience, even if that also failed for reasons that are obvious in hindsight. But I also understand that a Parliamentary system would completely violate the separation of powers, and the need to form coalitions to get Prime Ministers and other internal leaders chosen kind of defeats the purpose of having more than two parties.
But this is probably best given its own dedicated thread. Something with a title like "ITT we're the Framers of the Second US Constitution."
