@davidpmaurer@mastodon.sdf.org but you're missing the thing that I'm trying to emphasize here, that I wish got emphasized much more often: you say the count is so close, but we voted for that count!

You say two to five elected officials have a crazy amount of power, but that's because the rest of the people that we voted for, that we empowered, maintain that situation.

Hell, at the extreme the representatives that we voted for can at any point even eject those two to five people if they are misbehaving. If they are so damn obstinate that they are interfering with the performance of the chamber, my representative and yours could vote to expel them.

So let's stop re-electing the idiots who maintain this bad situation. Let's stop re-electing the ones who put up with the crazies.

But we can only hold our own representatives accountable for their actions if we stop acting like everything is up to only five members.

That just gives a pass to all of the other representatives who could be doing something to fix the problems.