It's not the Senate's fault

[angrychair]

Or the fault of the electoral college.

It’s easy to blame the Senate and all the inaction and bad policies that can come out of it but that same structure passed the “New Deal” gave us the EPA, the Civil Rights Act and the ACA. Within that hallowed chamber has sat some of our most revered presidents and elder statesmen. The Senate is a construct, a place and an ideal, neither bad nor good. It’s people that decide that.

While yes, the system is setup to give disproportionate influence to smaller population states, we only care because we have large population states.

The problem is not the Senate or the EC, it is not an infrastructure problem, it’s a people problem.

Racism, bigotry and misogyny are not infrastructure problems, they are people problems.

The government is not broken, we are...at least some of us.

Being a citizen is hard work that requires active participation and real commitment.
We are not going to fix our problems by liking tweets and watching YouTube videos (it doesn’t hurt either, ideas have to come from somewhere).

We have to stop blaming “them” and “they” and “it” and start organizing and working for the world we want to live in, not the world we only wish we could live in.

[maxsolomon]

1. Fine words.

However, the imbalance in power between small states and large states is no longer acceptable to me, as it becomes ever more lopsided and unfair every election year.

Proportional representation is Democratic. Disproportionate representation is not. It's the House of Lords.

[BaileyBill]

2. And there is no longer a need to protect

the institution of slavery by giving smaller states more power.

[Kaleva]

3. There is no serious movement, even in more populated states, for a change in our government.

[maxsolomon]

4. You're right about that.

It feels like climbing Everest.