Fucking unbelievable. Folks, I think our democracy may be dead.

[MikeJelf]

98. If Democracy Were Alive, My Vote would Count More than a Cow's

With the Electoral College in power, the presidential vote of any citizen in a populous area is worth only a fraction of the vote of a cow, a slave, or any plutocrat.
The Senate is ruled by an individual who not only spurned manhood by betraying his oath to the Constitution (he sneeringly and facetiously rejected his duty to advise and consent on a Supreme Court nomination after God called a reactionary justice home), but refuses to allow any popular legislation to be discussed.
The angry baby wouldn't be in the White House if in 2016 enough states had already joined the compact to award electoral votes for president to the winner of the majority popular vote.
Making the Senate democratic is a bigger challenge than democratizing the presidential vote.
Our founders were influenced by their British heritage and historical memory of the aristocratic upper house (the House of Lords) as a curb on central (royal) authority -- Magna Carta, habeas corpus, trial by jury, and all that.
Under the present Congressional arrangement "one dollar, one vote" is the favored Senatorial arrangement, and it's hard to see it changing until plutocrats act like the aristocrats of the Magna Carta era -- that is, until they care more about what they leave to posterity than what they can scrounge for themselves in the here and now.