May 12, 2025
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'we need to add 6000 seats to congress' no, actually, we don't, and headlines like this are both as effective and as helpful as 'We need to set the minimum wage to $150/hr' it's nothing except fodder for the outrage machine, it's astroturfing.
The '6000' seats thing is the nightmare scenario that was 'prevented' by the cap on the House of Representatives, and it's like saying we can only ever use that one old formula to determine the size of our Congress, and since 2+2=4 that obviously means we'd need many many thousands of Representatives.
But it doesn't fix the problem, actually. What does is the Wyoming Rule:
The smallest population region becomes the district size. Wyoming = 1. Every other State/territory is afforded an amount of reps according to how many 'Wyomings' (population # not land size) fits into that state's population.
We'd end up with like roughly 1200 Reps. That's absolutely reasonable and doable.
Remove the Cap and Enact the Wyoming Rule.
Gee, what a good idea! Wonder why nobody has thought of it before...
Bernie's petition
Bernie’s petition
At a time of massive wealth inequality, when 99% of all new income generated in this country goes to the top 1%, and when over half of the American people have less than $10,000 in savings, the last thing we should do is cut Social Security.
When the average Social Security benefit is $1,328 a month, and more than one-third of our senior citizens rely on Social Security for virtually all of…
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Expand social security - remove the senators who oppose it!
Expand social security – remove the senators who oppose it!
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Thank you to the 42 US Senators who voted in support of U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren’s amendment increasing Social Security benefits!
The vast majority of Americans are overwhelmingly united in support of expanding our Social Security system. It’s great to see so many politicians finally catching on…
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