WHO Deserves Extra Power In Government To Defend Their Interests? DO YOU?
Some defend our system saying it balances rural and urban interests in the Senate, EC, and amendment process permitting those living in rural areas to protect their legitimate interests.
But if giving extra power to some is the "moral" approach to defending one's interests... why is this extra power limited to those who choose to live in small population states? Why not offer it to groups who were TRULY oppressed historically... like Blacks, women, gays etc? At this point the defenders of the system would recoil in horror. Their rights can be protected by legal or constitutional protections... if at all.
So why not have a democratic system where NO ONE gets a bigger vote... and any legitimate rural interests are protected by laws instead of giving those people bigger votes... a process so absurd that if someone moves from CA to WY the weight of their presidential vote increases by close to 4x and their Senate vote increases by nearly 70x.
Then there's the bigger problem with our federalist system: those who get these bigger votes do not have their power LIMITED to only their legitimate interests... they are free to use that undeserved power on ANY topic... to the point it can lead to a tyranny of the minority as we see with the Trump Junta... and now in the Senate where Dems represent 33 million more Americans than the GOP... yet the GOP is about to ram through another right wing neanderthal for the Supreme Court with Senators who represent less than 50% of the US population.
At some point Democrats really need to break through the spell that justifies our antidemocratic system and demand truly democratic reforms. After all... they'll NEVER come from the GOP which is thrilled the system now clearly has a GOP bias giving them power they could never earn democratically.
