Seems that the Senate has become a constitutional suicide pact [View all]
The U.S. Constitution says that every state gets two senators.
California has almost 40 million people and they have two senators.
Wyoming has a few dozen people and they also have two senators.
Do you think there's something wrong with this picture? Does it seem that mostly rural red states have a disproportionate say in the makeup of the senate? Do you think that Democrats, who live in mostly urban and suburban areas, can ever put in place a senate that represents the majority of Americans?
At times in the past, Democrats have controlled the senate. Given today's reality, there seems to be no way in which we can take control of the senate in the foreseeable future. And here's where we get fucked beyond repair because of the federal courts, -- the third branch of government.
Trump and the Republicans are flooding the federal judiciary with wingnuts who only need senate approval. And they're being approved every single day that the senate is in session.
Many (most?) of Obama's federal judicial appointments were blocked by a Republican senate. Put into plain English, they spent years fucking us and waiting for the moment they could pack the federal judiciary. That moment arrived two years ago and is continuing at this very moment.
One entire branch of the three branches of government, the judiciary, is being rigged to screw us beyond our wildest nightmares. And there's not One. Fucking. Thing. we can do about it.
The Constitution wasn't meant to be a suicide pact. But it seems to have turned out that way.
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