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Chris
10-10-2014, 09:30 AM
What I get out of the following video is our representatives are not very representative. I don't know that they should be, or that if they were our democratic system would be better. I doubt it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMVW2aTYzIk#t=81

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Private Pickle
10-10-2014, 09:53 AM
$ leads us and rightly so.
Captain Obvious
10-10-2014, 03:10 PM
Class leads us and I wonder if those demographics which don't represent population are correlated to class demographics.
Chris
10-10-2014, 03:39 PM
No, the demographics concern race. No idea what the breakdown on classes would be.
Captain Obvious
10-10-2014, 03:54 PM
No, the demographics concern race.

I understood that part.

Class leads us, I'm suggesting that the racial mix of class might differ somewhat dramatically from the racial mix of the general population.
Chris
10-10-2014, 04:00 PM
No, the demographics concern race. No idea what the breakdown on classes would be.


I understood that part.

Class leads us, I'm suggesting that the racial mix of class might differ somewhat dramatically from the racial mix of the general population.

Well, present some data and correlate that to representation. Are classes represented? Probably not, but who knows without some data.
The Xl
10-10-2014, 04:05 PM
$ leads us and rightly so.

No.
Private Pickle
10-10-2014, 04:06 PM
No.

Yup.
The Xl
10-10-2014, 04:06 PM
Yup.

What right does big money have to impose its will on everyone else?
Captain Obvious
10-10-2014, 04:07 PM
Well, present some data and correlate that to representation. Are classes represented? Probably not, but who knows without some data.

I will, but after I make dinner.

I took a quick shot from the hip and couldn't find something useful but there's data out there.
Private Pickle
10-10-2014, 04:55 PM
What right does big money have to impose its will on everyone else?

The right to buy shit.
Chris
10-10-2014, 05:17 PM
Depends on how you look at government. If you see it's purpose as protecting rights, or even providing entitlements, then more proportional representation might be called for. But as it is with government mainly meddling in the economy, then less proportional and more representation for having more stake in the game might be called for. Of course it really shouldn't be meddling in the economy.