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    6 months ago

    They do. It concentrates conservatives, which helps a declining political party stay relevant.

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      It infuriates me that a state like Wyoming or Alaska, where they have something like a twentieth of population of California, gets the same number of senators / same votes as my state (Cali). I understand why it happened this way (slavery), but it needs to change. Bumfuck rural people matter, but they shouldn’t have an outsized vote.

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        That’s one of the main reasons that the US is classified as a flawed democracy. A vote in California has something like 1/200th the influence on federal policy as a vote in Wyoming or Alaska.

        “The Senate was designed, as part of the separation of powers, to check the impulses of the House and the popular will.”(1)

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          "The Senate was designed, as part of the separation of powers, to check the impulses of the House and the popular will.”

          And that is a worthy consideration, but how does this help?