@Background Pony #79F9
Np, I’m remembering correctly. Democrats were accusing Trump of cheating and colluding with the Russians. They did not just move on from it. I’m not trying to draw any kind of parity between the two parties in 2016 and 2020, only pointing out that the Dems did not simply move on from 2016 and taking the loss.
How anyone can justify that someone in one state should have 40 times more power than people from other states over what happens in the senate is beyond absurd and it spits in the face of democratic principles or the basic idea of equality or fairness.
I am justifying it by saying the Senate is only one part of the legislature. It is split so that you have the purely democratic side with the House of Representatives, and the state side with the Senate. It can of course be changed, senators used to not be elected, but what I see as fair and what you see as fair differs. I don’t believe our entire government should be based on a purely democratic system like you want, where both the Senate and House’s representative are allocated by population. The idea of a chamber whose job is to represent the states is fair to me, because as I said people in Montana and North Dakota are going to be very different then California and New York. For a country our size I don’t think it would be fair for large populous states to simply dictate to the states with low populations. This system balances it out, you have one chamber of congress who is represented by population, and another by state. This, to me, is fair.