This is true. Switzerland, which adopted the US model in 1848, changed its constitution in recent decades to balance the representation of the upper chamber. If the US embarked on such a rebalancing, it could assure every 7 million persons in any state of at least one senator, while also leaving the 2-senator allocation to every state alone. Since 7 million is the median state population, it would only require adding about 25 more senators. Alternatively, the upper chamber could be repurposed, say, as a reviewer of unenforced or irrelevant law that should be taken off the books. This would require considerable mental effort so probably a bit too challenging. Finland has a unicameral system, but still leaves room for a strong presidential role. I would argue that Finland is more democratic and representative, which is beneficial to the general welfare of its citizens. Cornyn, a senator with two law degrees, treats his role as senator as if he has clients rather than constituents, a notion of governance that does not seem crazy in his mental health desert.
I will vote Democrat the rest of my life, of course. But as a DC resident I still seethe anytime I read articles like this. I’ll never forgive Democrats for not simply establishing DC statehood during the brief period in Obama’s first term when they had a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate.
Yes, they had their hands full with other priorities (spending most of it on healthcare). And, yes, it would have been challenged (though with a much friendlier SC). But tables turned, Republicans would have passed the bill in a day, two at the most. I could see that then. Now I fear the havoc they’ll wreak next time they have the power.
Seems like the sort of thing that is going to literally come back to haunt him
Pace the Founders – who tended to be Deists and doubters as @thunderclapnewman points out – it does seem wise to me to remember that a more than fair number of the early settlers were religious fanatics. So it is in the life’s blood of the country, just as you suggest.
It’s ok if you don’t want to observe the obvious.
Because when the GQP gets the levers again, they won’t hesitate to use them. They believe they have right on their side and they will push through the legislation the minute, the second they get the majority. They now completely understand that any SCOTUS challenges from the left will fail, allowing the GQP to do whatever they want.
Deny it at your peril.
Protestantism, a savage, vengeful and uniquely American Protestantism. Given the astonishing number of these nasty sects, it’s hard to bet on which one will win the coming power struggle, but whichever one does will then get to go toe-to-toe with the Catholics to win the right to be the established state religion.
The accusations and counteraccusations of heresy are going to be epic!
Well, it looks like the formation of a fascist government will work out great for you: It gives you the opportunity to sadly tell everyone, “I told you so, and you refused to listen,” before you’re pushed into the railcar that will take you to the FEMA camps.
Until that moment? Wringing your hands and playing Cassandra is just so, so weaksauce.
The national yearning for martyrdom was present from the beginning, along with the paranoia that Everyone is Out to Get Us. Thus, Puritans were so badly treated by the English that they had no choice but to leave, when, of course, the reality is that they left in a snit when it became clear that they wouldn’t be able to establish a punitive theocracy in the Olde Country.
When you make the rapacious idiots at Jamestown look good, you’re not making the best life decisions.
Finally, someone asking the important questions! As it happens, Notre Dame can go fuck itself, and the other football powerhouses are public universities, so…Midwestern football will be just fine.
Ahhhh, a little over two months before kick-off!
I am hitting the like button as hard as I can…