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We have too many people who vote based on emotions and feelings and 'go with the flow' front-runners that vote for whoever seems to be winning too often.

The mechanisms to prevent bad legislation are intended to be remedied at the ballot box - first in the hot-blooded House (where members should face the voters every two years) and then in the cool-reasoned Senate (where lengthier 6 year terms are meant to shield their decisions on key issues from electoral pressures). But here are a few of our current problems:

1) The Congressional district gerrymandering is out of control (on both sides to be fair) and MUST be redrawn to equitably represent the ENTIRE population, not allowing candidates to simply pick their voters.

2) Filibustering where a member MUST HOLD the floor and actually maintain DEBATE (NOT read Green Eggs and Ham) is an honorable and necessary measure for protest and debate on key issues. An anonymous hold, with no requirement to defend or debate the reasons for NOT VOTING on a measure, is unacceptable and should be killed as soon as possible.

3) We cannot have a function government where 85% of the seats are in effect over before they can even reasonably be contested. This is a recipe for abuse and disaster, the former of which we already see and the latter of which we are careening towards with no brakes right now.

4) People simply MUST take their vote more seriously. They MUST reject Facebook, X, Instagram and other online lie factories and actually seek out independent and real journalism to inform themselves. We are (as a collective) far too susceptible to lies, manipulation and FOMO-style influencers for any good to come of it.

Fix the rules and districts and the Congress can be on a path to repair. Buit live and let live in the status quo? Collapse is the end result of that path. It is 2024. We need to STOP VOTING and ACTING like its 1850.