“What we need is more states...or more countries.”
You have hit on a proposal that I have argued for some time but that is largely unknown. In the early days of this country, a congressional representative represented a fairly small number of people. Today, that number is many fold what it once was. This greatly weakens the voice and representation of the individual voter. An increase in the number of representatives and in the number of senators would make the importance of individual voters greater to those politicians they represent. The potential for more numerous coalitions in Congress would result as would the weakening of power for many individual politicians. I tend to support reducing the concentration of power in individual politicians. Does anyone else think this could improve the representation of Americans?
Exactly, iacovatx. Narrowing the representation would make the representative much more beholden to the individual electors.
How do we do this? Not sure. Still studying the notion.