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by newtonianrules2 hours ago |
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upvoteby stouset2 hours ago|
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This stupidity is not going to simply be waited out. It is becoming even further entrenched.
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upvoteby ericmay2 hours ago|
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There are a lot of issues in the American political system but the structure of the Senate is not one of those.

It was explicitly created as a way to balance sovereignty of the states against populism, such as that enacted by MAGA or leftists.

If you are a small state like Vermont, you don’t want to just have California, New York, and Texas dictating all rules and laws for the country by sheer weight of their population sizes. That is expressed in the House, but the Senate serves to balance that and ensure that populists don’t run roughshod over the country.

Without such a structure states with less population would either band together and create their own super states - and you can see where this leads, or they wouldn’t have agreed to join the US in the first place.

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upvoteby wolvoleo1 hours ago|
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> That is expressed in the House, but the Senate serves to balance that and ensure that populists don’t run roughshod over the country.

Yet that is exactly what has been happening twice now.

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upvoteby ericmay35 minutes ago|
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Well, dissolving the Senate would just make that problem even worse if that's your viewpoint. "Twice now" seems to be a dig at Trump as though MAGA is the only populist movement, but ANTIFA/BLM and other, similar populist groups have taken hold of power in various forms as well, primarily in certain west coast states and cities.
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upvoteby boustrophedon2 hours ago|
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Yes, if anything the issue is that the House was capped in seats in 1929 and the population has tripled. Smaller states have an outsized representation in Congress currently.
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upvoteby ericmay38 minutes ago|
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I'm strongly in favor of expanding the House. I failed to mention that in my original post.
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upvoteby oscillonoscope1 hours ago|
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This might have made sense for the original 13 colonies but after westward expansion, it clearly does not. Most of the western state borders were formed for administrative reasons
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upvoteby ericmay32 minutes ago|
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It still makes sense today. It's not perfect but it's a pretty good balance most of the time.
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upvoteby krior1 hours ago|
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> Sorry everybody but we just have to wait this stupidity out.

And the rest of the world has to suffer the consequences. It has been incredible watching americans shrugging off any responsibility.

Insufferable hypocrites.

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upvoteby mmooss48 minutes ago|
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> the smartest people in the US didn’t vote for this administration

Trump has support from SV and Wall Street leaders, and the whole Republican Party.

> gerrymandered

Trump won the popular vote, and iirc the GOP got more total votes for the House of Representatives. What about for the Senate? Sure NY and CA are big, but so are FL and TX.

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