Polls: Society & Politics

They both creep me out.

I'm conflicted about it. I feel like life was simpler by necessity when the fastest route of transportation on land was a horse.

Have one election, no primaries, and the top vote-getters go to Washington as the state’s representatives. It would result in wildly more diverse delegations, more moderates representing a wider range of ages, races and political beliefs than we have in Congress.

Rural voters wouldn’t lose “their” representatives under this system any more than urban voters would. In fact, all voters would be more represented, not less. For example, each Pennsylvanian would go from having three representatives to having 19. And each member could cultivate a statewide constituency based on political orientation, social beliefs and moral reasoning rather than geography.

Electing all the representatives at large would make all the districts in each state the same size. More important, it would end the redistricting wars that bedevil us only after the census but now seem destined to become a permanent & ugly fixture of American politics.

If each state chose its representatives in a single statewide election, the result would be a House of Representatives truly representative of the people. Smaller parties would finally stand a chance of winning a seat at the table. The two major parties would be forced to enter coalitions, which would require compromise and moderation — qualities sorely lacking.

Critics will insist that the House is no place for the 17th-place finisher. Perhaps. But could the resulting Congress be any more dysfunctional than the current one?

A single-vote, winners-take-all system would remove party politics and geography from the process. Representatives would represent people with shared ideologies, not some artificially constructed “district” where half the voters feel their representative is not representative of their beliefs.

For example, there aren’t enough socialists or libertarians in any one congressional district in PA to win a seat. But maybe there are enough socialists or libertarians statewide to enable a candidate to finish in the top 17.

Has to be more than racism? There's no evidence illegals are getting any special treatment. Is it just skin color?

Some basic freedoms that were lost during Covid included going to restaurants, socializing at bars, enjoying concerts and sporting events. Heck, in California people even lost the freedom to go to the beach. Even protests and visiting friends and family were discouraged. But I think these restrictions on freedom were worth it because it saved a bunch of lives. Do you agree?

Recent changes to Medicaid eligibility in the Big Ugly bill passed by Congress in July could mean that millions more Obamacare enrollees lose their insurance, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

Those changes threaten the very viability of the online marketplaces, which currently provide insurance to 24 million Americans.

More than half of Americans aged 18 to 29 have incurred medical debt in the past five years. Few have the reserves to pay it off.

The Dept. of Homeland Security has opened a new detention facility for illegal aliens so they can be processed and deported. It will hold up to 5,000 illegal aliens until they can get their hearing and then deported. It is in Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas.

President Trump has recently got the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan together and got them to make a peace agreement. He has several other peace deals he can point to. Now he is working hard to bring peace between Ukraine and Russia. Even though the US is no longer funding this war and in fact American companies are selling the majority of the weapons NATO in buying for this war he wants to stop the deaths of thousands of Ukrainians and Russians.

Democrats and their cheerleaders in the fake news want to see President Trump fail. They prefer that an additional tens of thousand people die in this war than to see President Trump get yet another win. Is this sick or what?