Unrein
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It comes down to this, very simply: geography and arbitrarily drawn lines should not disparage power in any way, shape, or form, between individual people. The senate, as opposed to the house, is based not on any proportionate effort to keep the amount of representative power any two different individuals in this countries has in relation to one another, but rather to disproportionately reward unequal representation over where an imaginary line on the map has been drawn.
I'm very aware, by the way, of the go-to justification. "The big states would just be mean and control the small states!" But this assumes that a 'state' is a hive-mind collective of people with uniform values, backgrounds and beliefs. It's false, and is the premise of the justification. To say everyone is California has some collective identity and interest in exploiting people from 'small states' around them is absurd.
I'm very aware, by the way, of the go-to justification. "The big states would just be mean and control the small states!" But this assumes that a 'state' is a hive-mind collective of people with uniform values, backgrounds and beliefs. It's false, and is the premise of the justification. To say everyone is California has some collective identity and interest in exploiting people from 'small states' around them is absurd.