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We badly need:
Term limits
A recall process for all elected officials
To abolish the senate
Or, just get people to vote the way the GOPs do.
Look up Jerry Falwell and his Moral Majority. Jerry was a televangelist who grabbed the GOP by the grassroots.
He used his extensive mailing list to find the small local GOP clubs that decide who is going to be the next sheriff or country clerk. If there'd been twenty people at the last meeting, Jerry's folks would show up with fifty.
That’s kind of smart. Find elections that are so volatile, you can easily amass a small group to tip the tides. Win that election, and use your newfound influence to snowball the effect into larger and larger wins over time.
Only problem is that it’s predatory on small town folk who have a working, albeit delicate, political system. It’s using their delicate platform as a stepping stone for self-promotion, denying them a voice on their own platform in the process.
Only other problem is that it apparently works, if people are fucking doing it.
Why abolish the senate?
Because it is, by design, an undemocratic institution that gives rural voters multiple times as much power as voters who live in more populated areas.
I think reforms are in need there specifically on gerrymandering but also ranked voting.
The senate isn't an undemocratic institution that's literally insane to say about something that relies on elections to get into
It is insane to say an institution where representatives of 10% of the population can thwart the interests of the other 90% (Source) is democratic. Russia has elections, that doesn't make it a functioning democracy.
Russia's elections are known to be a facade like in North Korea. And I do agree America isn't authentic in their elections either.
But the senate is one of the few spaces we get elections often and specifically for our locality. I don't think the senate as a concept is a problem, I think there are flaws in the execution
Or we abolish the senate and expand the house to the several thousand representatives it should actually be. Term limits on legislators in a small legislature just makes the party even more powerful because nobody will have name recognition except the party. It also highly encourages working with lobbyists who promise to get you a cushy landing spot after your term. For what most people have an issue with, an age cap with a good retirement would work.