Here we are

Don't worry the House balances it*

*Until they froze the House because they couldn't fit anymore chairs...

It's a government by rich owners for rich owners and it's working as designed

We pay more in taxes than the welfare states, have less representation... Seems like there was something in US History about taxation without representation.

I may be misremembering, but I believe the way things were originally designed was that the Senate was supposed to represent the states, not the people. The house represented the people. That's why the Senate has equal representation (because the states were meant to have equal say), and the house proportionate to population.

And there we have the only reason why the US is as fucked up as it is.

If the US would have an actual democracy, Republicans would never ever ein anything anymore

They came up with the best thing they could agree on at the time. They did not intend on it to become sacred, untouchable, and without the ability to change with the times, and sometimes we have changed it. Just not quite enough times.

Don't forget, those senators translate to electoral college votes.

This is an example of why the House of Representatives also exists.

One person, one vote.

Blame Connecticut. It’s their fault. It would up benefiting the South, but it was Delaware and CT mad about larger states having more a say.

The South actually wanted proportional representation. They were growing faster and had more land.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut_Compromise

It would be somewhat OK if the House was much more powerful relative to the Senate, similar to how the (unelected) Canadian Senate rarely if ever opposes the will of the House.

It is as it needed to be to get the states to sign on. But times have changed, and it needs to as well

I don't even care so much about the Bicameral Compromise; but I do care that the electoral votes apply toward electing the President.

I'm assuming it's working as intended.

Can we get 25 million volunteers to move proportionally to red states for the next few years?

The Kentucky fried chicken chef guy is absolutely SLAYING those short shorts and boots 🔥🤩

Edit: apparently I already made this joke and forgot about it lmao

Representative democracy is unstable and corruptible by design and it can't be anything else.

the Kentucky chicken chef is absolutely rocking those boots and skirt

To be fair, small states would never agreed to the constution without the senate.

Southern states would not have agreed to the constitution without the 3/5 compromise.

The United States would not exist without these compromises. The constitition is, as CGP Grey calls it, a Compromise-titution.

I always thought it'd be interesting if one senator were elected only by the most populous municipality in each state.

yeah...

It's the senate.

You forgot to look at the house lmao.

We have the technology to implement some direct democracy and get away from all this "represntitive democracy" that doesnt work so well. Let people vote on the actual issues and we'll get progressive policies pretty quickly, we wont get into wars, we'll spend much less on defense, and the corporatists wont be able to buy influence as easily.

Disingenuous. That's 21 states and 42 senators.

Now do representatives, which was originally supposed to match population distribution.

Should have stuck with the monarchy they had.

Don't blame the founding fathers that all these hippies moved to California /s

Extremely low IQ meme considering this is the intended purpose of the senate.

To be fair, it is the united ´states´, not the united ´people living on the continent´. It wouldn’t be any more fair if California was making the decisions for 20 other states, just because they happen to have a crap load of people. The federal government is kind of supposed to be making decisions and maintaining things between states, not all these decisions affecting the people so directly.