it becomes even more incoherent when a state has two senators who vote in opposite ways. further, note the implication that a majority is relevant when it comes to removing a president from office.
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As a New Yorker, I sometimes wonder what it must feel like to have your "democratically elected" representatives actually represent you...in any way whatsoever.
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It's why I'm moving in 3 weeks from NYC, where I've spent 3/4 of my life
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The democracy wasn't clean or pure enough.
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Representation is actually a check against the potential for mob rule that comes w/pure democracy. The founders were fearful of the instability of a purely democratic vote. "If every Athenian had been Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob." -James Madison
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But it wouldn't be mind blowing if it was honest
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Good thing we don't run trials based on popularity votes and polls...for now
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We are mostly a republic with a flavoring of democracy add in. The republic as designed, and I would argue, designed well, is working just fine.
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Thank the founding fathers,we could be even more under the thumb of the urban elites.
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The Senate is not representative of the population. That's the whole point of the Senate!
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