Saturday, May 2, 2026

Yes, the country was just fine in 1957 when there were only 2.85 billion people in the world

 

As if they haven't blown it pretti good already

 

Why I'm not very interested in the redistricting hullabaloo pre- and post- the Supreme Court decision

I view fixed representation at 435 as a crime against the Founders and a crime against the people, and all the recent developments involving this subject simply rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic. 

Representation was meant to grow with population, and Republicans stopped that in 1929.

Political power is now more concentrated in fewer hands than ever, resulting in sharply more polarized politics where more is riding than ever before on the outcome of U.S. House elections.

Anti-federalists sought representation at 1:15,000 of population. An early compromise settled on 1:30,000, which grew to 1:50,000 but was never ratified in Article The First.

At this moment in time we have representation at 1:787,290 thanks to the Republicans in 1929.

Now your congressman doesn't know you from Adam, and couldn't care less what you think. Write him or her about an issue, and you'll get a nice form letter back thanking you for writing if you're nice. If you're not nice you will not hear back from your lords and masters.

6,849 U.S. representatives is unimaginable to most people today, let alone 11,415 or 22,831.

The problem is 435 for a country this size would be unimaginable to the Founders.  


Hooverville here we come: U.S. House Farm Bill allows hot rotisserie chicken purchases with food stamps, but 23R and 12D were agin it

 






Sam's fuel: $4.689

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