our political system is truly defective when the gop majority

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2. Constitutional compromise

As the Framers argued back and forth about how to distribute votes among the states, they ended up with this compromise in the Senate. Those representing small states were convinced that big states would gang up on them if the distribution was based on population. There was no way the Framers would have been able to successfully agree on a Constitution (which was not guaranteed!) unless the fears of the smaller states could be assuaged.

Compounding the problem in the last few decades is wealthy people creating their own fake news networks (Limbaugh, Fox News, etc.) whose purpose is to scare rural people into voting for the Republican party, even though that makes no sense since Republican policies are detrimental to them. So today we have large tracts of empty land getting votes more than people.