Reply #12: It's worse than that in our so-called "democracy." A state like

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California has two U.S. senators, while a pissant Repuke state like Idaho has . . . two U.S. senators. Thus, Idaho gets way more per-captita weighting in the U.S. Senata than California does, even as California massively funds the U.S. government while Idaho and its Repuke cousins profit from the taxes of Californians.

You can thank the South and slavery for that peculiarity of American politics. Totally and utterly ridiculous.