The electoral system is at the root of so many problems. We need sane redistricting, elimination of electoral college, dramatic expansion of the Congress, term limit, age limits and many other changes.
Expanding Congress probably isn't a great idea though. To get enough power as person in Congress to do anything takes a decade or more, your idea just makes it worse. As for getting rid of the EC, think of it as districts you can't Gerrymander. It also ensures those that grow our food get a voice. And since most of the people in cities can't keep a house plant alive yet somehow want to decide how a farm works, that's a good idea not to empower the lunacy of the mob.
Term limits are good. Age limits I would support but its almost certainly unconstitutional.
It is simply an accident of history that Wyoming, a state with less people than San Francisco (not even the Bay Area’s biggest city) has just as many senators as the entire state of California.
That is understanding the matter far too much. Without the compromise of the bicameral legislature, the country never would have existed. That is not simply an accident of history; that is a foundational part of the social contract which forms this nation.
* Better representation - Originally 35K constituents/congressperson. Now 770K!
* More congresspeople (and therefore districts) also goes a long way to fix gerrymandering by itself.
* Counterbalances the recent shift toward supreme/imperial President.
* Would largely fix the distortions of the electoral college.
* Smaller campaigns and therefore less prone to monetary influence.
> Age limits I would support but its almost certainly unconstitutional.
We already have age limits: 18 to vote. 35 to be President.
We absolutely do not need that. Reform perhaps, but not elimination. The country is full of many different people with differing needs, and a president should have an incentive to balance those needs. The country would be a much worse place if the top N cities got to impose their will on the rest of the country which is nothing like them.
Better for the bottom N states by population to impose their will on the rest of the country which is nothing like them?
1. Which reforms are contradictory?
2. I’m not convinced of term/age limits, but I believe I've heard all these reforms proposed at least by the US left - which of the reforms have you not heard proposed by the left?