I’m not so sure the knee-jerk “most-votes” vs. “electoral system” is the problem.
One reason we produce so much food in The USA is that system, that gives heightened weight to agrarian areas that would be underrepresented in a straight democracy. We’ve seen many countries experience shortages because they’ve not properly understood the needs of the farmer, but not America.
Personally, I’d say the bigger problem is two PRIVATE ENTITIES (the Democrat and Republican parties) OWN all the political positions in our nation. That institutional bribery is legal (lobbying). That there is no incentive (other than goodwill) for those in power to change anything.
But you go ahead and believe a popular vote would fix things.
I’m not so sure the knee-jerk “most-votes” vs. “electoral system” is the problem.
One reason we produce so much food in The USA is that system, that gives heightened weight to agrarian areas that would be underrepresented in a straight democracy. We’ve seen many countries experience shortages because they’ve not properly understood the needs of the farmer, but not America.
Personally, I’d say the bigger problem is two PRIVATE ENTITIES (the Democrat and Republican parties) OWN all the political positions in our nation. That institutional bribery is legal (lobbying). That there is no incentive (other than goodwill) for those in power to change anything.
But you go ahead and believe a popular vote would fix things.