You are right, I believe in majority rule, one person, one vote. I live in California and in the electoral college and the Senate my vote counts for very little. That is also true for the Supreme Court confirmations. I do not believe in minority rule for any reason. But under the current circumstances perhaps we should just make California into three states.
You are right, I believe in majority rule, one person, one vote. I live in California and in the electoral college and the Senate my vote counts for very little. That is also true for the Supreme Court confirmations. I do not believe in minority rule for any reason. But under the current circumstances perhaps we should just make California into three states.
Your vote counting for little in the Senate is exactly the purpose of its design. The Senate represents the states by its very nature. By design, states with higher populations' votes count for less in the senate. If your argument is limited to "majorities should rule because it's just that every vote counts the same" I'm going to have to disagree (or, perhaps more accurately, remain unconvinced). Your argument is that our country's system of government is fundamentally ill-designed. To reflect those values, we have to throw out the Constitution and start over. I need a whole lot more and better argument before I'm willing to consider that.
Revise laws to mitigate gerrymandering? Very much in favor. Make DC and perhaps other territories a state? I can definitely be convinced; indeed, my thinking is that they should have been long ago (though perhaps another solution would be to add them to Virginia or Maryland in the case of DC). Increase the number of representatives in the House? Probably favor.
While our government was designed well to fit the 19th Century it does not fit the 20th or especially the 21 Century. Westerners who live in actual democracies can only laugh at our outmoded Republic (or most recently with Trump, many symbolically cried).
You are right, I believe in majority rule, one person, one vote. I live in California and in the electoral college and the Senate my vote counts for very little. That is also true for the Supreme Court confirmations. I do not believe in minority rule for any reason. But under the current circumstances perhaps we should just make California into three states.
Your vote counting for little in the Senate is exactly the purpose of its design. The Senate represents the states by its very nature. By design, states with higher populations' votes count for less in the senate. If your argument is limited to "majorities should rule because it's just that every vote counts the same" I'm going to have to disagree (or, perhaps more accurately, remain unconvinced). Your argument is that our country's system of government is fundamentally ill-designed. To reflect those values, we have to throw out the Constitution and start over. I need a whole lot more and better argument before I'm willing to consider that.
Revise laws to mitigate gerrymandering? Very much in favor. Make DC and perhaps other territories a state? I can definitely be convinced; indeed, my thinking is that they should have been long ago (though perhaps another solution would be to add them to Virginia or Maryland in the case of DC). Increase the number of representatives in the House? Probably favor.
While our government was designed well to fit the 19th Century it does not fit the 20th or especially the 21 Century. Westerners who live in actual democracies can only laugh at our outmoded Republic (or most recently with Trump, many symbolically cried).