This is excellent. Touches on the #DebtLimit and 5 other elements of #USpolitics that are anti-democratic by design; eg, author Jon Schwarz quotes James Madison:

“to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority. The senate, therefore, ought to be this body.”

I also loved his mention of #RankedChoiceVoting and #MultiRepDistricts aka #FairRepresentationAct

https://theintercept.com/2023/05/20/debt-ceiling-american-traditions/

As embarrassing as this #House #Speaker debacle may be for Republicans, it is nice that they recognize that a body shouldn't choose its single leader by plurality vote, or else they'd be unable to vote for R alternatives to #KevinMcCarthy without wasting their votes and electing Hakeem Jeffries as Speaker.

They should put that conviction into practice and pass the #FairRepresentationAct to make #InstantRunoffVoting a reality for the election of their members, too.
#RankedChoiceVoting #RCV #IRV

@CaptainStack I would have to say just increasing the size of the House of Congress is not in itself enough but combining with some sort of #ProportionalRepresentation electoral system like the #FairRepresentationAct would do amazing things for this country. #rankedchoicevoting @rankedchoicevoting