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Re:Teachers are ready to quit rather than put their lives at... by not2b on Friday July 17, 2020 @03:43PM (#23874632)
The Senate is also broken (Wyoming with 500k == California with 39M people).
Re:Teachers are ready to quit rather than put their lives at... by pdonis on Friday July 17, 2020 @03:51PM (#23874721)
> The Senate is also broken (Wyoming with 500k == California with 39M people).

That's because States are political units, not just arbitrary boundaries. So they also have a voice in the federal government as States. To me, Wyoming being able to not be run roughshod over by California just because California has a lot more people is a feature, not a bug.

Re:Teachers are ready to quit rather than put their lives at... by dllthomas on Friday July 17, 2020 @04:18PM (#23875029)
If that's true, why does it not also apply to the weighting of the Presidency between those two poles?

What they were describing applies to every federally elected position, in different amounts. Whether it's a bug or a feature (as a whole or for each position) is very much up for discussion, but it's orthogonal.

Re:Teachers are ready to quit rather than put their lives at... by pdonis on Friday July 17, 2020 @04:23PM (#23875071)
> If that's true, why does it not also apply to the weighting of the Presidency between those two poles?

It does. I didn't mean to imply that what I said didn't also apply to the Electoral College. Sorry if that wasn't clear.

Re:Teachers are ready to quit rather than put their lives at... by dllthomas on Saturday July 18, 2020 @02:58PM (#23883841)
In that case, I don't think anything really remains of your original comment in this thread? Your follow-ups have blurred the line between factual questions and normative, but in both cases the comment you initially replied to applies at least as much to things other than the presidency.

(I'll note that this doesn't mean there weren't interesting points worth discussing that you've been trying to get at, just that you've at least wound up unclear in how you've been expressing them.)

Re:Teachers are ready to quit rather than put their lives at... by lbotos on Friday July 17, 2020 @04:08PM (#23874904)
The Senate is designed to act as a counter balance to the house. The senate with equal representation per state, and the house with population based representation.

What do you mean by the Senate is broken?

Re:Teachers are ready to quit rather than put their lives at... by AnimalMuppet on Friday July 17, 2020 @04:17PM (#23875011)
It's not doing what not2b wants.

It's working as designed, but that seems to be irrelevant to not2b.