The Senate is worse.https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/931375645640265728 …
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What kind of representative democracy today says that Wyoming and Rhode Island should have as much voting power as Texas and California? Don't reply to me that we don't like in a democracy we live in a "republic." This bores me.
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Lots of folks mistaking my normative argument for a positive one. That is, I'm arguing that the division of power should not be this way given today's equality norms. I'm not questioning why the Senate was constructed to equalize power among different sized states.
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But almost never have my mentions been full of such vitriol, between responses to this post and Republican gloating in response to my post on end of blue slips for judicial nominations.
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Wyoming and Delaware DON’T have the same voting power as New York or California. They have fewer electoral votes; much less representation in the House. Only in the Senate are all 50 states equals.
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Representatives in House are apportioned by population. You cant be suggesting that 580K people in WY have as big a voice as 38M in CA
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It does vary. Wyoming has only one seat in the House, because you can’t strip a state of its representation entirely, but that seat reps 580k people, while California’s 53 reps each cover an average of about 750k people. Can’t really balance them down to the last voter.
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But House districts are periodically reapportioned. States can and do lose or gain seats. I’m more concerned about gerrymandering in larger states than that Wyoming voters have a whole rep for 580k people while in California that would be about .766 worth of a representative.
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Also, California is only State where legislators don't draw district lines. Voters passed a Proposition so CA politicians could stop using redrawing lines as a political football. Lines are now drawn by an Independent commission of citizens & way more fair then rest of the U.S.
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The senate should be abolished
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The senators used to be appointed by the states they represent. No elections to fund.
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That would be even less democratic. There's a reason we passed the 17th amendment
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The 17A blew up a key piece of the original Constitutional architecture, and set us up for our current situation, where we have a quasi-aristocracy of people more loyal to party than State or voters.
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17A is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.
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Good point!
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