General Politics Discussion VIII [ARCHIVED] • Page 566

everyone here flexing their state reps and meanwhile I'm gonna pretend for the sake of the conversation that I'm back in WA and not in FL

 

Only works if you put controls on money and lobbyists. Mainly the lobbyists, Michigan's Congress did this and it backfired. Lobbyists become the experts and end up writing all the legislation.

Even then you would also need the term limits to be pretty wide. It takes time for people who are newer to the political/legal aspect to get their legs to write effective legislation.

 

Utah's republican governor is "cautiously optimistic" about our 2,800 covid cases that were announced today. our highest yet.

 

I went from Rashida Tlaib to Tim Ryan recently. A huge downgrade but could still be much worse.

 

my new terror is that I'm gonna lose Cori as my rep in redistricting tho. I am very close to the line between MO-1 and MO-2

 

Also hope to not sound too radical, but abolish the senate

 

coming around to this take tbh

 

My congressman is Chuy Garcia, who all things considered is pretty good by comparison.

 

it’s just a fundamentally undemocratic system.

 

my parents' congressperson is this total and complete asshat tho

Both parties pile on Massie after effort to force recorded vote flops

 

It could be worse. At least her husband wrote on his deathbed to abolish the senate.

 

It was done on purpose as well.

 

we gotta get rid of at least one of EC/senate at this point. ridiculous to have both

 

Trump did not do well in red states. Of the 24 states with 90% or more of the vote returned so far and went red in 2016, here's the list of those with a higher percentage of Trump votes in 2020:

Arkansas
Florida
Pennsylvania (and we know how this one is going to end)

Obviously, we were dealing with third party candidates there, but most of the other 21 aren't all that close to their 2016 margins.

 

My rep is Diana DeGette. Honestly, I know next to nothing about her. She seems like a pretty middle of the road dem.

 

I went from Jayapal to Adam Smith when I moved.

Kinda hoping redistricting puts me back in Pramila's district. Smith is like... progressive enough that its probably not worth giving him a serious primary challenge but no where near the level of Jayapal.

 

Ted Lieu is our rep. Just moved out of Judy Chu’s district

 

At the bare minimum you need to take away a seat from some states and give it to another. Literally no reason for Wyoming and California to both have 2.

 

Tim too.

At least Sherrod is one of the senators.

 

I Served in Congress Longer Than Anyone. Here’s How to Fix It.

John Dingell called for it in 2017 on his deathbed and he's 100% right.

 

Yeah the senate sucks

 

yeah to me, if the EC goes then so does the senate, they are equally fucked up and undemocratic

 

Fair enough, Rashida is just down the road so I get a little jealous. Lol

 

my dem rep (who i wasnt crazy about to begin with) was defeated by an anti-communist fear mongerer. so thats not great