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> can the Democrats truly be so ineffectual that this is the state of your country? Not to deny that the democrats certainly have their own sets of internal is
by warning26 4y ago
> can the Democrats truly be so ineffectual that this is the state of your country?
Not to deny that the democrats certainly have their own sets of internal issues, but a key factor is that the US election system is designed to ensure that republican areas have far more voting power than non-republican areas. Take the Senate, for example. Since each state has exactly two senators regardless of population, a voter in California has far less power than one in, say, Arkansas. In this environment, it's basically impossible for the democrats to achive meaningful policy goals.
- lesuorac 4y agoSure but that issue is compounded by Democrat's ineffectiveness. They don't try to generate chances that they can take advantage of as well as Republican's do. Dakota's split [1] provide 4 Republican senators while California only provides 2 Democratic senators. Republican Justices have no problem with overriding a state on how to conduct its elections [2]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakota_Territory#Statehood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakota_Territory#Statehood [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_v._Gore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_v._Gore
- quantified 4y agoThey tend to be rather less egregiously sleazy overall. Note the BS that gets slipped into large bills without review, for example.