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[-] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 31 points 4 months ago

Land doesn't vote. People vote.

[-] lseif@sopuli.xyz 51 points 4 months ago

**Land SHOULDN'T vote.

[-] Phegan@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago

Abolish the senate.

[-] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 4 months ago

Why does the Senate exist then?

[-] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

I'm not sure what you're asking. The Senate isn't based on land. Texas gets just as many votes in the Senate as Rohde Island.

[-] bss03@infosec.pub 2 points 4 months ago

State governments, which represent the people, vote.

[-] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 2 points 4 months ago

Normally, in a democracy, you have two chambers for the legislature so that one of them is filled by popular vote from all over the country and the other by representatives allocated for administrative divisions.

In the US both chambers are allocated for predefined divisions, just on different scales (state vs slice of population), so the principle of the popular vote is not represented.

It does serve (in theory) to make up for a state that had lower population, but since the slices are subject to manipulation it's debatable.

[-] aidan@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Why does land determine who tells me what to do then?

[-] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Because the US electoral system is fundamentally broken?

[-] aidan@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

What? It's a worldwide thing, not just the US

[-] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Yes, to some extent it happens everywhere but the US has reduced the phenominon to its grotesque final form.

[-] aidan@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

No, it happens to the same extent in basically anywhere that's populated and can afford to enforce it

[-] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago
this post was submitted on 20 Jul 2024
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