Thanks David, great insights here on the problem perhaps being one of disconnect rather than distrust or dislike. Your point about the ratio of representation is an a important one — and longstanding. At the time of the US Founding, the population of House districts — then in the tens of thousands — was seen by the Anti-Federalists as way too big to…
I wonder to what extent citizens worldwide have problems with their representatives, or whether they simply don’t think about them at all. Every time I see a new survey claiming how much citizens from X country detest their respected parliament, I wish there were two follow-up questions: 1) what’s the name of your representative? What are her/his…
