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In reply to the discussion: If you voted for trump for ANY reason.. then you are among the stupidest people [View all]eniwetok
(1,629 posts)Obviously you're stuck being unable to prove your claim
"I also do not agree with you assessment that the Senate is anti-Democratic."
and lack the integrity to retract it.
Like most believers in the Civic Religion... you seem to believe that if you just regurgitate what you learned in 4th grade US History WHY we have the screwed up system we have... that alone should settle all questions.
Sorry. It just proves either you don't what democratic principles are... or if you do... you don't care... thus proving why Dems have NEVER bothered to reform the system that's doing them in.
To repost the evidence you ignored...
The Senate is perhaps the most ANTIdemocratic representative body on the planet. The hard numbers bare that out... states with a mere 18% of the population get 52% of the seats. Of course not all the small states are going to be made up of one party. So in real world terms Dem Senators now represent 33 million more American's than GOP Senators... yet the GOP has control. Looking at votes is more difficult since they are greatly affected by off year elections... and that one has to calculate THREE election results to get a total of how many people voted for a party over three elections. For example in the 2004 election the Dems won more votes that year
44,754,618 vs 39,920,562
and also over three elections
101,584,312 vs 98,995,255
yet the GOP had 55% seats to the Dems 44
If you don't call this antidemocratic... you have no clue what the term means.