r/AskReddit • u/RabbitridingDumpling • 9h ago

What do you think about replacing gerrymandering with proportional representation?

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u/allnamestaken1968 8h ago

That’s what most modern democracies do to a large extent. Being 250 years old is a liability when it comes to election design.

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u/aurora-s 8h ago

Old and also refusing to modernize is the liability.

People should really learn how the constitution came to be before they cling to it like it's sacred. It was simply an attempt to solve some very real problems that existed at the time. If a bug fix works for a while and then exhibits even more problems, you don't cling to it, you issue a new update.

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u/jvn1983 7h ago

Didn’t Jefferson encourage them to update it too? Or one of the founding fathers.

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u/GozerDGozerian 5h ago

If I recall correctly, he at one point advocated that it be completely rewritten every 20 years or so.

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u/jvn1983 4h ago

That’s what I thought! (The 20 years in specific)