re: #68 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The US Senate is archaic, an ancient reminder of the time when politics was about powerful men looking for ways to retain their power.

Abolish it.

The purpose of an upper house, a Senate or a House of Lords, has always been for a parliamentary body to represent the interest of the upper classes, the wealthy, the powerful, and thus serve as a check and balance to a lower house that in theory represents the plebs. The US Senate is explicitly anti-democratic, much more so than most. I am ambivalent about the value of any upper house in a parliamentary system (there should be a check on a parliamentary body, even a democratically elected one), but the US Senate is a vile institution and should be ended.