re: #17 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

I just think yeah sometimes the Jeffersonian vision gets in the way of what we really have become as a nation. Dunno who it was that said it but the weird thing is the modern right wants Hamiltonian America (big business dominating) by Jeffersonian and the left more sympathetic to small business owners and workers wants the Jeffersonian by Hamiltonian ways. The thing is we’re a much different nation than we were 231 years ago when we began to ratify The Constituion. I would favor expanding Congress personally. I think it would make our Congressmen and women more accessible to the public and it would be something that would benefit people in urban and rural areas. I don’t know about the Senate. I still think the Senate is a great idea in principle but the problem is how partisan things have gotten.

The way I put it is that we’re not an 18th Century agrarian republic comprised of semi-independent former colonies, and it’s time we stopped pretending. Whatever the origins of the Senate, it is wildly unrepresentative and will only become worse over time. People say “The Senate represents the States!”, to which I say, “Fuck the states.” I don’t think Wyoming, with fewer people than reside within San Francisco city limits, deserves equal representation with California’s > 36 Million people. It’s just lines on a goddam map that somebody drew. If Wyoming wants more representation, get more people to move there.