#uncapthehouse — Public Fediverse posts

A new and detailed analysis by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences recommends that we expand the U.S. House of Representatives by 150 members and elect them through Proportional Ranked Choice Voting.

"On balance, more proportional systems provide:

better public health outcomes, across a number of measures
lower levels of economic inequality
higher satisfaction with democracy
higher levels of subjective well-being."

The Academy was established during the American Revolution by John Adams and of bunch of founding father guys. They probably know a few things about #democracy.

#SingleTransferableVote #ProportionalRepresentation #unCapTheHouse

https://www.amacad.org/ourcommonpurpose/publication/congressional-reform-proportional-representation

@americanfietser.bsky.social "no taxation without representation."

I mean, everything you're saying, but this is just one of the signs becoming more obvious lately that we are in a crisis of democracy. Lack of legitimate representation in the USA is real, and has been for a long while . I think #uncapTheHouse and other #votingReform like #RCV are going to have to be part of getting us out of it.

Time for an #introduction

I started on Mastodon to see how it would fit but now I've decided to deliberately spend more time here.

I'm a husband/father/technology professional (mostly database stuff) with an overarching interest in human flourishing and specific interests in #politics (things like #UncapTheHouse, #OpenPrimaries, and #RankedChoiceVoting would alter political incentives away from extremes), #religion, #education, #FlagDesign, #cooking, #sports (mostly college), and #BasicIncome