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Scott Perry joins push to revoke 17th Amendment, strip voters of electing senators
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No that's the design fault in a republic. You can't condense the political opinions of hundred of thousands of people into 4-5 individuals that can be readily identified and easily swayed. You end up getting a binary decision that's supposed to represent an analog spectrum but that's fucking impossible. Just like Plato's allegory and just like mp3 bitrate All you can do is approach the original quality of true democracy. It cannot be represented with 100% accuracy through binary interpolation. That's what bit rate is The higher the bit rate the more samples you get.
The current vote rate for voters in America is like fucking . 00005 kv at best once you get to the state level. That means that it will take 50,000 actual dedicated voters who make their opinion heard and show up to vote in a pack to have any real impact on a house election. And that's just a house seat. At the same time through ads, social media, public deceit campaigns, etc you can buy 1kv for probably 100-200k depending on the area and the amount of deceit that you need to perform.
And ultimately if you buy a representative enough they'll do what you want regardless of what their constituents want. Which is how and why republics fail. When you dilute true sentiment with luxury and profit for the few, we all become doomed