# We have too many representatives! **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [April 24, 2010, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-too-many-representatives/537248 "2010-04-24T22:30:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 30
**Author:** ![Todderbob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@Todderbob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Todderbob)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2010, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-too-many-representatives/537248/30 "2010-05-01T21:42:08Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > Yeah, I’d rather not have the Commander in Chief of the Executive Branch also run the Legislative Branch. kthxbai This would be fantastic. > [@foolsguinea](#): > > In response to a post in another thread, I posted something that I’ve been thinking for a while, & have decided to just come out & say. And it’s really it’s own debate.Good in theory, but in practice, most Americans are Americans first, not Missourians or Floridians or what have you; & we’re mobile. If the pols in the several states think that voters in their states are fixated on how their state should be different from the rest of the nation, that’s only because **the overwhelming majority of Americans don’t pay any attention at all to state politics** , & only the few that somehow care about these archaic things called “states” are voting for state officeholders. > > Most Americans only know one politician: The President of the United States of America. And it is the President of the United States of America who will be credited & blamed for everything, whether he was involved or not. Therefore, state offices are effectively unaccountable. Really, for the sake of responsible government, we should bite the bullet & abolish most superfluous levels of representation, as those people are utterly ignored & can damn near get away with murder under the present system. Keep the Presidency–perhaps only the Presidency, autocratic & absolute. But if you like, keep as well either the state governors or one house of Congress. Abolish the rest, it’s too many “representatives” for most of us to keep track of. I responded in the other thread, about an hour after you opened this one, because I didn’t see this one. Next time you quote me in an OP, let me know… I’d like an at bat to respond. 😉 > [@Why do people feel the government is tyrannical?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-feel-the-government-is-tyrannical/536776/79): > > Thats because most of the representatives don’t represent you. > > You have 1 Representative, and 2 Senators that you need to worry about. Other than that – the rest of themy you simply don’t need to worry about, they represent other people. > > Your idea of a country is one I don’t want to live in, it’s somewhere between an absolute dictatorship and my worst nightmare. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-too-many-representatives/537248)._