What’s wrong with Congress? It’s not big enough
http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/09/opinion/flynn-expand-congress/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
Man was I skeptical when I first read the title of the article! However, I was taken in when I read this:
A seat in the House of Representatives has gone from representing 33,000 people to more than 700,000 today.
Of course Gerrymandering (I discuss this a bit here) is a critically important issue as well but I see huge parallels with the author’s idea that Representatives are not, after all, very representative. I am not totally sure that gridlock would melt away if we had 3K (or 6K or 10K) Representatives as the Senate will remain as partisan as ever but I do agree that it would provide a wedge opening for third parties and with that many cats to herd it seems unlikely that a handful would wind up in more or less total control that we have now.
Of course, nothing is likely to happen on this scale, but it is nice to fantasize about these things.
