Gone to Look for America: Where / What is the United States? PART TWO
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CONTINUING FROM PART ONE Diluted Representation. Thanks for reading Lee’s Substack! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. The present crisis of representation is aggravated by diluted representation: as the population of the U.S. increases each Representative in Congress supposedly “represents” more and more people. Our government is caught in a whipsaw effect: while the percentage of eligible voters who actually vote falls to a dismal level, the population base in a congressional district continues to increase. The individual Representative owes his seat to a small fraction of an ever-increasing population. Again, number is an unsolvable problem for our “democracy.”
Gone to Look for America: Where / What is the United States? PART TWO
Gone to Look for America: Where / What is the…
Gone to Look for America: Where / What is the United States? PART TWO
CONTINUING FROM PART ONE Diluted Representation. Thanks for reading Lee’s Substack! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. The present crisis of representation is aggravated by diluted representation: as the population of the U.S. increases each Representative in Congress supposedly “represents” more and more people. Our government is caught in a whipsaw effect: while the percentage of eligible voters who actually vote falls to a dismal level, the population base in a congressional district continues to increase. The individual Representative owes his seat to a small fraction of an ever-increasing population. Again, number is an unsolvable problem for our “democracy.”