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Back in the past there was a necessity for a more representative style of government. It was just simply physically impossible to have more democracy. You just could not tally votes or run issues in more of a real time method. Now with technology we find that system is broken. We have two parties and often people accept a person with few to none of their actual interests simply because they are part of a party. True liberals are not going to be happy with pseudo liberal nanny fascists who want to do things so extreme like ban soda. True Fiscal conservatives who want less public welfare are probably not going to be happy with a huge military budget sucking off their tax money for foreign welfare. You can go through a number of these examples. You also have people who have social issues that effect them who may vote for terrible people simply because of their stance on gay rights, abortion, gun rights, or other issues they feel strongly in. An example I can think of is a more libertarian person voting republican moral fascist only because that is probably your best candidate for keeping your gun according to the system. So because you want your gun you are forced to take away other freedoms and invoke a heavy religious bias simply because your choices are limited.
Not to mention the reps we elect take up issues when they want to. There may be some republicans who are tired of the constant waste of money to repeal obamacare while their reps fail to get budgets passed. Moderates in texas might be mad because so much money was recently wasted on an abortion argument while other more important state issues were clearly ignored. Right now we need legislators who have a concern to get a budget passed, and other issues can still go on, but because congress works on many pet issues and those issues are seen as propaganda wins over simply doing a job to pass a budget, it might be better to have A representative elected for your district that focuses on individual issues. So instead of having one rep who has to handle everything and may not be informed or educated enough on particular issues making all votes, you have an representative for you who represents you on a singular issue and can take the time to read monsterous legislation like the ACA and vote intelligently as they were elected to on the issue.
This sort of method would also keep the riders to a minimum as that particular elected group doesn't have other concerns. So we would not see things like pet projects slipped silently into other bills because simply those people would be in separate legislative procedures. We now have the technology and methods around to deal better with the overhead of a more democratic legislative process.
Not to mention the reps we elect take up issues when they want to. There may be some republicans who are tired of the constant waste of money to repeal obamacare while their reps fail to get budgets passed. Moderates in texas might be mad because so much money was recently wasted on an abortion argument while other more important state issues were clearly ignored. Right now we need legislators who have a concern to get a budget passed, and other issues can still go on, but because congress works on many pet issues and those issues are seen as propaganda wins over simply doing a job to pass a budget, it might be better to have A representative elected for your district that focuses on individual issues. So instead of having one rep who has to handle everything and may not be informed or educated enough on particular issues making all votes, you have an representative for you who represents you on a singular issue and can take the time to read monsterous legislation like the ACA and vote intelligently as they were elected to on the issue.
This sort of method would also keep the riders to a minimum as that particular elected group doesn't have other concerns. So we would not see things like pet projects slipped silently into other bills because simply those people would be in separate legislative procedures. We now have the technology and methods around to deal better with the overhead of a more democratic legislative process.