I don't see any good reason for some of these lightly populated flyover states to have disproportionate representation in the US Senate, especially since they generally seem to represent violent, retrograde, superstitious, bigoted Whites.
Maybe cut them back to one or zero Senator each with some kind of population floor?
@kevin-eleven saidThis is the same issue the framers of the constitution wrestled with back in the 1700's. They reasoned there should be some way less populated or smaller states should have equal say in running the government, since the House of Representatives was an institution that governed based on population. Personally, I'm in favor of keeping things as they are since Senators are elected officials and can lose their jobs if voters deem it necessary.
I don't see any good reason for some of these lightly populated flyover states to have disproportionate representation in the US Senate, especially since they generally seem to represent violent, retrograde, superstitious, bigoted Whites.
Maybe cut them back to one or zero Senator each with some kind of population floor?
@mchill saidI totally disagree.
This is the same issue the framers of the constitution wrestled with back in the 1700's. They reasoned there should be some way less populated or smaller states should have equal say in running the government, since the House of Representatives was an institution that governed based on population. Personally, I'm in favor of keeping things as they are since Senators are elected officials and can lose their jobs if voters deem it necessary.
If the basis is 1 person 1 vote, each vote should have equal weight.
Now if 2 people represent 1 million and another 2 people represent 40 million, then some people’s votes weigh more in the scale than others.
And extremely so.
The concept that “region” should be weighed, I can live with, but the senate is extremely pro-region over pro-vote.
That’s why I always suggest a bandwidth.
States with 12 million + people: 3 senators
States with less than 4 million: 1 senatoe
The rest: 2 senators
You can’t have North Dakota and Vermont having equal say to California and Texas.
It’s just completely perverse.