Kel Varnsen wrote:
Claudius wrote:
I feel for Democrats. Nothing compels Republicans to change the way they operate. The electoral college protects them. And they are able to compete for the Senate with a minority of the population. Using those two, they can then control the Supreme Court. Minority rule. They will run with this until Democrats figure out a hack. It works great for them because the solutions force Democrats right and there is no foreseeable way to end it.
That's because the Senate isn't elected by the people. The Senate (and the President) is elected by the states.
what are you talking about? the senate is elected by the people, the people in that state. and the president is also elected by the people, it's just that we don't have a real national election, it's 50 individual elections and each states has an electoral vote total that is in proportion to their population. the problem with the senate isn't how they are elected (no beef with that, it's the fairest national office election we have going, no gerrymandering and majority rules) it's that every state gets 2 of them. there are like 7 states that have more senators than congresspersons (determined by state population). california has as much power in the senate as wyoming.
btw, in another one of those gaming the system things, if this election was tied in electoral votes it would go to the house of representatives to decide, but the dems control that you say ... nah it's one vote per state delegation and while the democrats have more reps, the republicans have reps from 26 states. so trump would win a tie.
all of this is by design and like all american ills can be traced to slavery.
