It's the remedy we need, but not the remedy we deserve

NICE! I've been saying this for a while. Glad to see I'm not as crazy as I thought, and other people had the same idea.

Razorfist makes salient points quite often but I can't take the man seriously. Dude has this fake-ass wannabe macho persona but wears eyeliner.

And his takes on media and music are atrocious. Literally 12 year old, I don't like thing so it's bad. Wahhh Warhammer nicked the idea of Chaos gods from Elric wahhh. Bitch, GW games are a pastiche of hundreds of 80s and 90s tropes amalgated into it's own thing. Same shit with his music taste, boomer metal or it's garbage

This sounds similar to what Maine and Nebraska have been doing already with allocating electoral votes.

"Using the 'congressional district method', these two states allocate two electoral votes to the state popular vote winner, and then one electoral vote to the popular vote winner in each Congressional district (2 in Maine, 3 in Nebraska). " (from 270 to Win)

I've been saying stuff like this for years, ever since I realized how badly the Chicagoland area fucks over the rest of Illinois. 80+% of the state is ruled by the decisions of the Windy City and the collar counties. That shit ain't right.

I agree in part, but I believe part of the problem is how we've created so many inter-weaving layers of government that it's hard for anyone to feel affiliated and responsible for anything.

There shouldn't be any congressional districts that are separate from counties and townships. Those are typically (besides cities) the lowest form of local government that people are going to have.

Yes, we should have electoral colleges for the states. Also, it should be divided up among the borders of counties, townships, and or cities; and not just arbitrarily defined districts. All the congressional districts should be divided up the same way. This level of localism will promote local politics and local representation much better.

Also, I think we should also push for self-determination in regards to the county's borders. People should vote to recognize what territory they actually belong in in regards to bordering regions between cities and states.

The way I see it, if you decide to live in the city rather than the township, your tax money will move towards the city and it will gain in power. However, you're homogenizing the city and shrinking it's influence to the state. If you remain separate, your partisan tribe will have split influence between both the city and the township, but you may be able to gain more votes in the state government by influencing 2 local governments rather than 1.

Self-determination for boundaries also prevents people screaming about gerrymandering by courts and legislatures, and allows smaller partisan groups to develop bases of power without either being forced out by the establishment, or being able to violently overthrow the whole system.

I feel like such a system would be self-moderating and promoting amicable relations by such a system.

Nice try, Johan Libert! But I've read Monster! :)