9 States have 18 Senators and Half the US Population

[CreekDog]

244. I don't think that's necessary, but a unicameral legislature would be fairer

...than what we have.

a proportional Senate is democratic too, but only if it is proportionally allocated according to one person one vote.

that said, there is nothing that says a Parliamentary system with a unicameral legislature, with constitutionally protected rights for minorities can't be as democratic or even more democratic than what the USA has right now.

this is what the status quo in this thread can't conceive of. that's what's disturbing. it's not that they know both ways and think this is better --from the replies, you can see that they really don't believe those other countries are as fair as ours.

i feel like by writing this OP, that i've broken some tenet of the faith that they have that America is better, our constitution is better and I blasphemed.

but i didn't. our constitution is growing older and older and it is so hard to change, that its fairnesses are almost a permanent fixture --even moreso when the most progressive among us won't acknowledge them.

don't know what to take from all this but it's nice to reason with someone else who sees the unfairness.