The American Two Party system

[Belsnickel]

(03-06-2023, 03:11 PM)hollodero Wrote: Yeah well, be that as it may, I am still pretty unconvinced. I don't think a huge congress (how many people would you suggest anyways) would change anything for the better regarding the two-party system, or at the very least it would not be one of my suggestions to get there. I understand some ideas there. Like the local independent person having a somewhat heightened chance to gain a seat if this person has money and influence. But I don't think much would come of it after that. As soon as this person tries to be the nucleus of a new movement, one of the parties would feel threatened, and imho that is that. The party still has all the money and all the power and can fund campaign after campaign against this person. And so will the media and public pressure. It will be just like "what, you vote for Nader, are you insane? Do you want to hand Bush the win?" - a point that besides being sad also is quite true.

Now for an olive branch of sorts, I can see the idea of having four or five seats in each electoral district instead of only one, coupled with ranked choice voting and having 20 or 25% of the total vote grant one seat to a party. But I think that is not part of your idea.

Actually, it is. There is no chance of an emergence of a third-party without this.

One idea I have is tying the number of Representatives to the population. Take the lowest population state and divide the total population by that amount. There is your number of Representatives. Right now, that number would be 575. Not a huge jump, but definitely an improvement. This number would then be allocated based on the percentage of the overall population each state has, rounded to the nearest hundredth, with the rounding-up for the number of Representatives being cut at 0.75.

With this being the case, for three Representatives and higher, each Congressional district in each state would contain two to five Representatives depending on the number of Representatives and the dispersion of the population. This would be determined by the states during the redistricting process. This would be coupled with RCV to allow for a more democratic process.

Believe me, I have thought this through.