re: #68 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
The thing is, it’s done that way intentionally - that’s literally the reason the Senate was created, to give states with smaller populations some real power in American government. The problem, as I see it, is that the system breaks down when a political party turns into a religious organization (and/or vice versa).
But I don’t think we’ve ever had a time when it was this unbalanced.