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And who elected those filibuster-threatening senators? Were the senators acting of their own accord, or on behalf of their constituents' desires?

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The Senate is ridiculously undemocratic. Because every state gets two senators regardless of population, a vote by a Wyoming resident is worth 65 Californian votes.

Wyoming is one of the state's hit hardest by the unnecessariat phenomenon. Thats the tragedy.

The House is supposed to make up for this. A vote by a California resident is worth 3.6 Wyoming resident votes.

No. Where did you get that number from?

California has 53 representatives for 38.8 million people or 1 per 730,000 people. Wyoming has 1 representative for 584,000 people. So Wyoming is over-represented in the House as well.

Does it really matter? Senators representing around 10% of the population are enough for a filibuster.

Exactly: its unsurprising that people give up on solving problems through "representative democracy" when the system of government they have, whatever it claims to be on the tin, is poorly representative and functionally very far from democratic.

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