Profound trolling or profound stupidity? U decide! @voxdotcom @dylanmatt "The #Senate is profoundly anti-democratic & should be abolished"
— (((The Dividist))) (@Dividist) January 3, 2015
Vox has a bit of Voxsplaining that wouldn’t come as breaking news to the Founders:
The Senate's 46 Democrats got 20 million more votes than its 54 Republicans http://t.co/nsOWUOGrGP
— Vox (@voxdotcom) January 3, 2015
Let’s look closer:
But here’s a crazy fact: those 46 Democrats got more votes than the 54 Republicans across the 2010, 2012, and 2014 elections. According to Nathan Nicholson, a researcher at the voting reform advocacy group FairVote, “the 46 Democratic caucus members in the 114th Congress received a total of 67.8 million votes in winning their seats, while the 54 Republican caucus members received 47.1 million votes.”
Vox’s bottom line is that lesser populated states having the same Senate pull as heavily populated states means that things are out of whack, and because of that…
The Senate is a profoundly anti-democratic body and should be abolished.
Except that’s the way the Founders designed the system, and for good reason:
@voxdotcom At what point does the idiotic author of this piece realize that the whole point of the Senate is 2 give each state equal say?
— Technical Gremlin Grogan ?? (@Wmpenn09) January 3, 2015
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Well, there’s that.
https://twitter.com/ByondPolitics/status/551443227773923329
https://twitter.com/CrankyGordon/status/551418663799357441
@voxdotcom Learn about our bicameral representative republic and the senate's role in giving small states voice. I did in third grade.
— ColeDeZeiss (@ColeDeZeiss) January 3, 2015
.@voxdotcom "The House and Senate are antiquated systems and both should be abolished." ~ President Obama when signing executive actions
— Uri Blago (@UriBlago) January 3, 2015
.@voxdotcom reports on breaking news from 1787: In the Senate, states are represented disproportionate to population http://t.co/LPR5vZBQ8i
— Michael Saltsman (@Mike_Saltsman) January 3, 2015
https://twitter.com/graber429/status/551419716385120256
https://twitter.com/TWest727/status/551426305464733697
The U.S. is a Constitutional Republic, not a straight Democracy. But obviously nobody told Vox.
According to some, however, abolishing the Senate would be a great way to put those freeloading red states in their place:
@voxdotcom @co_kmaldonado4 IT"S TRUE. Also Republican southern states pay the least in revenue, get the most gov aid, but not used on poor
— Nancy Counter (@easynan2) January 3, 2015
https://twitter.com/ErnestLamonica/status/551414573010784257
Ugh.
This article and comments illustrate the utter failure of publik skools…
MT “@voxdotcom: http://t.co/HzQ6nLkQji”
— Uri Blago (@UriBlago) January 3, 2015
In fairness, that’s something that Vox does very well.
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