I always vacillate between the argument of voting someone out for doing a bad job is a good as term limit, and the reward of doing a good job is to keep doing the job, and just straight up having term limits to help the process along of getting new people a fresh ideas and hopefully cut down on corruption. Both are positives and negatives.
That being said, I think the time has come to put two big changes in to help hopefully fix a lot of the representative and voting issues we see today when it comes to the legislature.
-I would be in favor of term limits both senators and reps, but I'd still keep it like 4 for reps, and 3 for senators. But I'd also increase the term for reps from 2 to 4 years, I think their constant campaign mode puts them at too much in the mindset of needing to make money to campaign, and not enough time actually lawmaking. I know it's supposed to be a short term to keep them pegged to their constituents, but I feel really all it ends up doing is said campaigning, not lawmaking. I would however like the prez to always have to face a new house every term, so make all 4 year rep elections during the mid presidential term. So 2018, 2022, 2026, etc. Senator terms at 6 I think are ideal.
-I am convinced beyond being able to be unconvinced we need to get rid of tons of districts and go more towards super districts of 4-7 reps per district, and use STV (single transferable vote) to decide the reps per state. This would really I think do 3 important things.
1. Reduce gerrymandering, you can't gerrymander Kansas, and ton of other states for example, the entire state votes for it's 4 reps at the same time. Missouri would only be 2 districts, California would be anywhere from 8-14. Much harder to exclude people in these super districts.
2. Third parties would have a much higher chance of getting reps, since they would only need to bet 25%+ vote for one candidate for example in KS to get let's say a libertarian candidate to congress.
3. People are more likely to get at least one rep they are comfortable with calling to get an issue through. Using KS as an example again, democrats easily could get at least 1 rep voted into congress, where under the current system it would be nearly impossible. The same works for certain places in Cali, where republicans are shutout. Essentially, it helps guarantee more voices are more equitable heard, which isn't that what a democracy should be all about?
how this work here, also youtube has some fun videos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_transferable_vote Do all that and remove the electoral college, which I've hated well before this 2016 election, and I'd be much, much happier with the system we got.
