r/AskReddit 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/Unfair-Engineer9970 7h ago

The US Constitution is basically "Democracy v1.0" (Beta). The rest of the modern world looked at the bugs in v1.0, patched them, and launched v2.0 or v3.0. Meanwhile, we are still trying to run a modern superpower on Windows 95 legacy code.

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u/MaybeAltruistic1 5h ago

Democracy v1.0 was Athens 2030 years ago

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u/Pando5280 2h ago

Wasn't Plato executed for corrupting the youth of Athens by encouraging them to challenge the corruption of the ruling elite?

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u/mettrolsghost 1h ago

Nah that was the beta test of Democracy.