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Re:Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade by tsimionescu on Friday June 24, 2022 @12:24PM (#31864912)
Senators hold power completely dissproportionate from the population they represent - the senators from Vermont hold the same amount of power as the senators from Texas, while representing orders of magnitude fewer people.

The senate is, by design, an inherently anti-democratic institution (it represents the rights of the states instead of the rights of their populations).

The presidency I think is at least elected quite democratically, so I'm not sure what GP meant there.

Re:Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade by mc32 on Friday June 24, 2022 @12:32PM (#31865099)
True but that is why there is a bicameral Congress to try to balance populism vs more restraint. Large vs small. You don't want the largest state(s) trouncing the agendas for all other states and vice versa.
Re:Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade by tsimionescu on Friday June 24, 2022 @01:04PM (#31865752)
Sure, but that's an inherently undemocratic argument. It doesn't mean it's wrong, it's just against the principle of the people holding the ultimate power.
Re:Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade by ausbah on Friday June 24, 2022 @12:45PM (#31865360)
but its still an undemocratic process
Re:Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade by colinmhayes on Friday June 24, 2022 @12:27PM (#31864988)
The presidency is elected by the electoral college which is made up of one voter from each state for each rep and senator they have. If the senate is undemocratic the electoral college must be too.
Re:Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade by tsimionescu on Friday June 24, 2022 @01:06PM (#31865804)
There is a difference: electoral votes are bound by law in most states to respect the people's wishes. It gets much messier, and there have been presidents which were elected undemocratically (i.e. without a majority of the US population voting for them), such as Trump. But most presidents have been elected democratically, even though the process doesn't guarantee that.