The emerging census figures suggests that US Congress does not represent the diversity of its constituents, starting with the fact that the average net worth of citizens is around $96,000 and the average Senate member’s is $13.4 million. A slight difference that is not superficial in shaping perspectives and agendas.
Given the age old fact that we care about those we relate to, the representation gap makes caring for the whole less likely.
What if we national elected a certain percentage of at-large congress people that would create a “more perfect union” of voices and perspectives? What if this included for example, people at poverty levels, scientists, non-Christians, artists, twenty and thirty something’s, the differently abled, nurses?
