Does anyone think this is fair?

California: 40,000,000 people. Each senator represents 20,000,000 people.

Wyoming: 580,000 people. Each senator represents 290,000 people.

Texas: 29,700,000 people. Each senator represents 14,850,000 people.

Vermont: 623,000 people. Each senator represents 311,500 people.

The 50 Senate seats held by Democrats represent 57 percent of the population.

The 50 Senate seats held by Republicans represent 43 percent of the population.

The difference is approximately 42 million people.

I mentioned big and small red and blue states because I don't want to frame this as a partisan issue. But the sad fact is that low-population states are overrepresented in the Senate, while high-population states are underrepresented, sometimes drastically.

The ten most populous states, with a combined population of approximately 175 million, are represented by 20 senators. The remaining forty states, with a combined population of approximately 155 million, are represented by 80 senators.

Now, Republicans LUVVVV this setup because it allows them to seize power with minority rule. As a result, they will twist themselves into knots trying to justify it. But it's unfair regardless of which side benefits.

Like so much else that is wrong with our "democracy," this is an artifact of slavery. The slave states insisted that a slave was only 3/5 of a person. However, this lessened their representation. So they insisted on equal representation in the Senate and disproportionate representation in the Electoral College. This situation persists today--the small states have much more power than the large states.

It's a driver of dissatisfaction nationwide. If you live in New York City or Dallas or Miami or Los Angeles, your vote counts about 1/70th as much as that of a hog farmer in Wyoming or an organic kale grower in Vermont.

We're not a democracy.

In time perhaps there will be an overhaul of our government, but it won't happen overnight, Americans move slowly, but we have become more and more progressive over time, we went from slavery to same sex marriage in alittle under 250 years, who knows where we'll be in another 100, not fast enough for you I'm sure, but each new generation brings new idea's, whether you agree with them or not.

I don't see how this gets fixed, not while the party that profits from the system's faults is in charge. And make no mistake, the Republicans are in charge now, and will only consolidate their power more and more in the very near future.

The Constitution was equipped with a self-destruct mechanism, and it's been activated. I for one would welcome the division of our country into decent (blue) and asshole (red) factions. We hate each other's guts anyway. And we here on the radical liberal far-left elite West Coast will be so much better off when we don't have to send our tax dollars to prop up Clem Cornpoke, Cowboy Bob, and Tucky Buckford!

Probably the most telling death knell for a country is when its citizens don't want to live with one another. They don't like our radical liberal ideas such as "nonwhite people are human" and "every citizen should be allowed to vote." We don't like their alt-right ideas such as "Any election a Republican loses is fraudulent" and "We were all put on this earth to serve our corporate masters." So I think it's "irreconcilable differences" at this point.

Republicans will come around (if they dont install an authoritarian first).

While Republicans cheer about people moving to Texas, Arizona, Georgia and the like.....they dont realize those new transplants dont share the same view of government.    AZ and GA are officially purple states.   And Texas is within 2 election cycles of being the same.    Look at the election margins for the last 20 years.   The Dixiecrats are dying off and so is their stanglehold of the South.    

Wen Texas goes blue the electoral college will officially be beyond the Republicans' reach.  Thats when you'll suddenly see the Rupert Murdoch machine complain about the undemocratic system in which we run elections and elect Senators.   

This is coming.  And this is a big part of the fuel of extemism on the right today.   Tucker talks about it on his show quite a bit.  They call it "Replcaement Theory".      A Democratic society that is controlled by the diversity of its people instead of a white minority  scares the shit out of them.   But its coming.

And its a good thing.  It will force the Republicans to finally break free of the SOuthern Strategy that started under Nixon and has been in place ever since.   Can you imagine a Republican convention with the same ethnic demographics as the Democratic one?   40 years from now (or sooner) it will...or the GOP will be replaced by another party that will   

OK, showing my shortage of brain cells again:  Is this or is this not what the Electoral College system (which people seem to argue against, wanting only a straight count of votes to determine the winner) is supposed to adjust, as far as big population/little population states goes?  As I fully admit, a don't understand any of it, and not asking to partake in an arguement.  If I'm getting off topic, I'm sorry so just ignore me. Thanks.

Candy

 Texas will never go blue. 

Why do you think Republicans are passing such drastic voter repression laws that predominantly impact cities in their state?      They know its coming too.   They're just prolomging the inevitiable.   Ted Cruz will be out of a job within 2 cycles.

As usual, more bullshit to back up another lie. It is not voter "repression" to require voter I D in order to vote. Only a moron would suggest so.

Texas already had voter ID before the new set of repression laws that went into effect his year.       I dont feel inclined to call you a moron for not knowing that.    Your profile is a known quantity here.

     And you ignorance is widely known here. There are no "repression" laws - just moronic lying liberal wailings because they will not be able to steal anymore elections in Texas with their illegal voting. Your suggesting that there is votor "repression" is moronic, which makes you a moron.