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Senate Representation vs Eligible Population (infosec.pub)
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[โ€“] cabbage@piefed.social 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Because it's a system consisting pretty much exclusively of career politicians, even though it was originally designed to consist of representative peers.

I guess that isn't necessarily a bad thing, but whatever the US has been doing is clearly not working.

[โ€“] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

It was originally designed to be a reward for accumulating the most friends in the state Senate