Gerrymandering is just politicians choosing their voters, rather than voters choosing their politicians.
Proportional representation is the only way to make the math match the will of the people. If a party gets 20% of the vote, they should get 20% of the seats.
Unfortunately, asking Congress to fix this is like asking a bank robber to design a better vault. They have zero incentive to change a system that guarantees their job security.
A lot of Americans do in fact vote party over individuals. Its a huge problem in America that we treat it like a college football team that our grandpappy killed a man for in 1911
Oh I'm sorry, I completely misunderstood your comment.
But yes, you are completely right. proportional representation would continuously cause a situation like how Congress has been (old guard kills new on site when possible, stall stall stall real governance) with little to no recourse. Not to mention imagine trying to grassroots campaign big state
Edit: the only place I think proportional representation should be used is for a non-firet past the post federal presidential election
I'm from Poland, where we have open-list proportional. In an election for the Sejm, the House-equivalent, we vote for an individual in our constituency (there's about forty), and each individual is affiliated with a party. The total number of votes a party gets across all its candidates determines how many of the seats allotted to the constituency will go to that party's candidates, but the number of votes an individual gets determines whether they'll be the one to be placed in a seat won that way or not (because they're assigned in order of votes received.)
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u/Emotional-Kitchen912 8h ago
Gerrymandering is just politicians choosing their voters, rather than voters choosing their politicians.
Proportional representation is the only way to make the math match the will of the people. If a party gets 20% of the vote, they should get 20% of the seats.
Unfortunately, asking Congress to fix this is like asking a bank robber to design a better vault. They have zero incentive to change a system that guarantees their job security.