FEATURED POST: ABOLISH THE SENATE!

YGLESIAS:

Several hundred years ago, politicians in low-population states said they wouldn’t agree to form a country unless politicians from Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New York agreed to give them disproportionate power. So today politicians from low-population states continue to enjoy the fruits of the stubbornness of their predecessors and they don’t want to give the power up.

Matt is discussing this in context of a proposal in Maine to make their state unicameral, but I wanted to highlight this in the context of our broken political system where a senator from Nebraska has equal power to a senator from California, or to put another way, 600,000 Nebraskans have equal power to 38,000,000 Californians. In addition, the "notion" that this is the greatest deliberative body in the world has become such a farce I can't believe people still spout such stuff with a straight face.