Stephen, I am glad you write about change. But I need to disappoint you about the feasibility of your proposal. It’s not the proposal itself, but our institutions that will not be able to make those decisions.
I have seen this many times already. Many folks come up with good and decent solutions, and I see about 50,000 of you screaming in the desert. All correct in some kind of way.
Our system is red and blue, so your full-color solution simply cannot be. Red cannot produce green. Blue cannot stand orange. That’s why the US is ahead of all nations economically and has its military might (they are linked). And that’s also why the US is behind all rich nations in healthcare, education, equality, imprisonments, etcetera (because red and blue disagree on so many things).
There is an option to take a small step toward improving our system of representation. It is already in the US Constitution and should be in place today, but it is not. I hope you can read the article. It does not follow your idea; it points at our system as the root of our pluses and minuses, and how the minuses are often too much. The best political ideas cannot succeed in the US today. We need change of the system first, and the article shows a first step. Here are some of my articles looking at political outcomes from different directions:
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In The American Truth, one can read how the system is indeed a set up, how it contains aspects of a shell game. It also contains information where the system can get changed in a secure way, today, to learn how it works.
In The Good German Example, one can read how States can deal with proportional voting without getting twenty little parties as an outcome. After WW II, Germany took over and modified the US voting system.
In Political Systems and Their Outcomes, one can read that how we vote, how we are represented, has indeed an effect on how we distribute wealth, what kind of economy we are establishing. I did this research in 2006 and I was not surprised our system belonged to a group that was not the best. The surprise I did have was how another system was also not that good.
In Manipulating the Political Outcome, one can read in detail how our system is not set up to pick representatives, but that it is a game that can get gamed particularly when we think it is at its strongest.
