Study: Congress literally doesn’t care what you think. The preferences of the average American appear to have only a miniscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy.

I had no idea how bad things actually were until I saw one simple graph.

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If we replaced first past the post voting with a more representative electoral system, we could inject competition into the electoral process.

Then maybe they would have to care.
- Representatives chosen by sortition like jury duty would be more representative compared to what we currently have, and that's such a wild thought.

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