Get in line

No constitutional amendments needed. Adopting multi-member districts with proportional representation can be done by simple statute, easily the biggest structural reform we could adopt without having to amend the Constitution.

Proportional representation makes gerrymandering moot, it doesn't work. You can do all the cracking and packing you want, all you've accomplished is shifting a party's seats from one district to another, because the seats still follower the voters whether they're a majority in the district or not.

It's much less harmful when your scapegoats are billionaires and landlords than when it is immigrants and homeless people, especially when the billionaires and landlords may do some terrible things! But ultimately social services require people to pay taxes and abudant housing requires developers

A lot of work in the last couple of years on the 1945 world order has convinced me that a lot of people think the flawed and half-broken system of 2025 is an easy status quo and not something we crawled over broken glass to get

I do completely and totally agree with one point advocates against allowing apartments in the donut hole are making, of course: We absolutely should be putting density in Laurelhurst, Magnolia, and all the other areas that are currently "protected" from Seattle's renter majority.

every day i see hundreds of comments of people spinning elaborate scenarios to explain how trump can control everything and all opposition is futile. a) i think a lot of you need to log off and stop following professional doomsayers. b) i think a lot of you are cowards

If you flatten a multiple-choice question into a straight yes/no binary, you miss your chance to really gauge the popular will. A ranked ballot of several alternatives is a better tool. Imagine if the Brexit vote had simply made explicit all the different things people thought Brexit might mean!