It is not a 25% population requirement, its a 5% one, that is, you only need 5% of voters to vote for your party in senate seats effective hold onto a majority

It is not a 25% population requirement, its a 5% one, that is, you only need 5% of voters to vote for your party in senate seats effective hold onto a majority proof veto. The senate is fundamentally an anti-democratic rule-by-minority institution that represents land area over top of human beings. Its as serious as a problem some other democracies and polities have faced https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotten_and_pocket_boroughs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotten_and_pocket_boroughs In the UK it almost caused a revolution, because it allowed the wealthy and corrupt to hold onto power, while denying representation to new cities with huge population. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sejm_of_the_Polish%E2%80%93Lithuanian_Commonwealth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sejm_of_the_Polish%E2%80%93Lit... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberum_veto https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberum_veto In the Polish Lithuanian commonwealth every senator held veto power, in practice this meant that an insane amount of corruption occurred (including senators being bought off by foreign nations), and it totally neutered their power as a state to fend of military rivals, and eventually ended up with the nation conquered. The senate is in desperate need of reform, and is a key part of why democracy is failing in the USA.