Democracy Diluted: The Declining Representation in America
<p>Increasingly, it feels as if democracy is dying. I’m not here to point fingers at individuals but at the mechanisms within our system that allow for its decline. In a recent article titled ‘<a href="https://medium.com/@hive42designs/the-fading-echo-of-democracy-how-money-in-politics-silences-our-voice-2ffe774ede5" rel="noopener">How Money in Politics Silences OUR Voice</a>’, I discussed how the influence of money in politics has quieted our collective voice, creating a distance between the electorate and those elected.</p>
<p>Today, I’m focused on the dilution of representation in our democratic system. While ‘dilution’ can have various meanings, I’m referring specifically to the number of representatives. We haven’t added a single representative since before 1929. Not one! This stagnation is due to the Reapportionment Act of 1929. As our population grew OUR political voices shrunk.</p>
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