@ildiavolorosso@sfba.social
Does size matter? When it comes to legislatures, it does.
You're bound to hear stories of intense lobbying, and speculation on where a particular legislator stands on Trumps' obscenity of a budget bill. But missing from all these news stories is critical context: the US has far fewer legislators relative to its population than other democracies.
Every US House member "represents" nearly 600,000 people. In the UK, each MP represents 45,000, meaning money speaks proportionately less in those elections. Even if you factor out the institutionalized corruption inherent in our campaign finance system this dynamic would stand. US plutocrats have fewer politicians to buy, and their spending has an outsized impact.
When it's time to clean up the wreckage of 2.0, it's critical to expand the House by a factor of 4 or more.
We need to undo Project 2025, and the for sure...but we also need to ensure that stuff never happens again.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_legislatures_by_number_of_members
