ClayGuida posted...
Honestly, there's always going to be extremists, the proper idea is to expand the House so they're only representing tens of thousands instead of hundreds of thousands. It used to be 33,000 in 1790, now it's 765,000.
Increasing the number would give extremists less power, but also give members more personal power as they won't have to dial for dollars nearly as much, as there would be thousands of elections instead of hundreds. A smaller constituent base would also allow them to actually hear and listen to their district. It'd also severely limit gerrymandering, which is why Republicans would never go for it.
The House has been the same size since the 1910's, despite adding more states in that same period.
If we added districts based on population it helps Dems, but if we added districts based on land it helps Rs. Naturally that means no agreement will ever be reached on how to do it. >_>