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In reply to the discussion: Beware of People Pretending to Be on Our Side [View all]dpibel
(2,826 posts)The senate is, by design and by function, an anti-democratic institution. Unless your idea of democracy is more along the lines of "one acre, one vote." Although it's not even that. It's "one arbitrary boundary, two votes."
There's nothing remotely democratic about two people who represent 6% of the population of the country being able to put the kibosh on measures that are favored by the vast majority of people in the country.
It is, for sure (lest someone jump in here and gravely intone, "But it is the rules that we play by" , the American system. But you are mistaken if you believe that automatically means its democracy.
In addition, you are applauding Manchin and Sinema for vigorously representing the people who elected them. How do you square that with the fact that many of the things that Manchin and Sinema are preventing are favored by the majority of people in their own little states?