@NZedAUS @airshipper @kamalaharrisforpresidentnews The major problem of the US Senate is that it is aggressively anti-majoritarian. If there was some way to weight their voting power to prevent a few low-population states from suppressing large-population states, then the damage of the Senate is reduced.

@Stybba3019 @airshipper @kamalaharrisforpresidentnews the 2 Senators per State formula locks in the anti-majoritarian equation. If you were starting all over again, you'd do it on a proportionate basis.

@NZedAUS @kamalaharrisforpresidentnews @Stybba3019 @airshipper That just re-creates the House, doesn’t it?

@michaelgemar @kamalaharrisforpresidentnews @Stybba3019 @airshipper Australia's Senate is proportionate, as is its House of Reps.
Its pretty crazy that states like Wyoming & Montana have as much say and sway as CA and Texas for example.

@NZedAUS @kamalaharrisforpresidentnews @Stybba3019 @airshipper I completely agree that the disproportionate sway low population states have is absurd and anti-democratic, but I’m not clear that just replicating the House makes a lot of sense — in that case, why not just abolish the Senate?

@PeachMcD @michaelgemar @kamalaharrisforpresidentnews @Stybba3019 @airshipper the challenge in a large democracy is appropriate "checks and balances" btw competing arenas of power. Removing one chamber entirely, then ascribes huge power to the dominant party in one chamber. Unicameral systems are appropriate for smaller populations - less so in countries the size of the US.