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> The American system is more about representing the preferences of communities than directly those of individuals.

Increase the number of representatives to match the population growth. It hasn't increased since 1911. Gerrymandering is a scaling problem.

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Then you have another scaling problem. If you increase the number of representatives to the level at the founding of the US (1 per 30,000 or so if I recall) then you'll end up with the House of Representatives holding 11,000+ members.

That sounds like a great idea. Mothball the south end of the Capitol Building; let 11,000 representatives meet and vote online.

Or maybe acknowledge that 300M people is a lot to have under one rule of government and split the country apart according to the most sensible cultural borders.

I recommend checking ou the book [American Nations](https://smile.amazon.com/American-Nations-History-Regional-C...)

I reckon we start by letting Texas secede. Then we bundle up California + Hawaii into its own little pacific paradise. Then we offer all the northern border states to Canada. And offer New Mexico to Mexico...

>Then we offer all the northern border states to Canada.

Living in New England, there are actually a fair number of people here who dream of applying to join Canada or the EU if we could get free of the rest of the USA.

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