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The Problem With Reforms in American Politics
The problem with making the kinds of reforms you're talking about is that it forces you to confront the state base dimensions of american politics. The electoral college treats us as states, and the senate does jerry mandering an sort of geographic representation in the house. And i guess this gets to one of the underlying questions i often have about politics, which is, we have a lot of fights that materialize rhetorically,. right coastal liberals versus hartland voters, that kind of thing.