Abolish The Senate

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I have a feeling like left-wingers only want the Senate abolished because the Republicans won it this past midterm. Ya know, I never demanded the Senate to be abolished when Harry Reid was Majority Leader.

I've been saying this for a while. For example, here is a post of mine from after the Republicans won the House but Democrats had the Senate.

Please, please let democracy work. Abolish the filibuster.

The Senate is highly undemocratic to begin with. California has 66 times the population of Wyoming, and yet they have the same number of Senators, and the power of Senators is determined by seniority and not the size of their state. Of course all of the more reason to not have the Senators of the 21 least populous states be able to block all legislation.

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By representing every state equally, regardless of population, the Senate actually is representative of a pseudo-nation with different demographic characteristics than the actual country. The pseudo-nation represented by the Senate is more white (non-Hispanic), less black and less Hispanic than the nation at large. This is likely not surprising. I haven't dug that far into the rest, but it would be interesting to see what other trends there are in the actual population versus the population implied by the Senate.

And yet which chamber has actually passed a comprehensive bill on immigration?

The Senate was also the first chamber to pass the thirteenth amendment way back in the Civil War. Because of the Senate's nature, it is more willing to compromise because its purpose is as I said, designed to encourage states to join together to ensure each other's interests are protected and that instills a greater sense of comity then the majoritarian House has historically functioned as. The House is also far more partisan and far more political because it is up every two years instead of every six years.

Why does nobody understand this? This is basic Government 101 here.

Senate Republicans are much more right-wing than ever before.