re: #504 palomino

The current system has some insanity to it: Wyoming, with 544,270 people, has just as much power in the senate as California’s 36,961,664 people. Nearly 72 times as many people in California, but they get the same number of senators because of arbitrary ‘state’ line designation. Thanks to the Senate and the filibuster rules, senators representing 10.3% of the US population can block any legislation from going forward.

The rural and less-populous areas already hold inordinate sway in US politics.